Re: [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 12 2006 - 17:41:00 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > dann frazier:
> > CONFIG_AIRO needs CONFIG_CRYPTO
>
> I think this is done wrong.
>
> It should "select CRYPTO" rather than "depends on CRYPTO".
>
> Otherwise people won't see it just because they don't have crypto enabled,
> which is not very user-friendly.
>

Yes, I think that's much more Aunt-Nellie-friendly, but Roman considers it
abuse of the Kconfig system in ways which I never completely understood?
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