Re: RFC: add an ADVANCED_USER option

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > config ADVANCED_USER
>> > 	bool "ask questions that require a deeper knowledge of the kernel"
>> 
>> > config EXPERIMENTAL
>> > 	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
>> > 	depends on ADVANCED_USER
>> 
>> Shouldn't this be the other way around, i.e. ADVANCED_USER depending
>> on EXPERIMENTAL?
>
>No, if there's a dependency between the two, then in this direction.

ACK. Advanced code is not necessarily "incomplete code/drivers".

>> If you implement it as above, people will set ADVANCED_USER to "n" in
>> oldconfig and then be surprised that all experimental drivers are
>> gone.
>
>What about no dependency between ADVANCED_USER and EXPERIMENTAL?
>
Sounds good.


Jan Engelhardt
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