From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946023AbWGOK4u (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:56:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946022AbWGOK4u (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:56:50 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:57987 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946020AbWGOK4t (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:56:49 -0400 Subject: Re: tighten ATA kconfig dependancies From: Arjan van de Ven To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Dave Jones , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20060715102825.GR3633@stusta.de> References: <20060715053418.GA5557@redhat.com> <1152942548.3114.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060715063827.GA24579@mars.ravnborg.org> <1152945956.3114.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060715102825.GR3633@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:56:43 +0200 Message-Id: <1152961003.3114.15.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > the point is that it doesn't fall out naturally, and thus things get > > needlessly missed. > > It seems the main question is: > Is the kernel configuration mainly designed for users or for developers? > > For users, showing drivers for hardware that is not present on their > platform only causes confusion. well Aunt Tilly gets confused by all hardware that is not present on her machine; she has no idea what a platform is. By that reasoning, we should make kconfig hide all non-present hardware. Also I think there is no difference in confusion between showing 10 or 15 IDE chipsets. Either the user knows what he has (and then it doesn't matter) or those 10 are too much already.