On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 02:43 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> -ENOMENUCONFIGPATCH

Has anybody decided how it could possibly even look like anyhow? It
should be fixed, but nobody has a plan.

> That's horrible - you shouldn't force the user to manually enable three 
> options.

Well, akpm says: "select is broken. do not ever use it"


> config SSB_PCIHOST_POSSIBLE
[...]

>       depends on SSB_PCIHOST_POSSIBLE
>       select SSB
>       select SSB_PCIHOST

That would, indeed, be possible. But it's ... ugly ... you've now
effectively pushed the information on what *SSB* depends on into each
SSB *user* instead of SSB itself...

> Is there any extremely good reason why options like SSB or SSB_PCIHOST 
> have to be user visible? 

Yes. Embedded systems like the small Linksys routers come with SSB as
the system bus. No PCI/PCIHOST.

> And according to the kconfig help text, we should remove the B44_PCI 
> option and enable the code unconditionally?
> (Or what was the person writing this help text smoking^Wthinking when
>  writing it?)

Same reason. They have a b44 core there but no pci.

johannes

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