Re: [PATCH] Quota netlink interface

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Jun 19 2007 - 04:05:20 EST


On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Jan Kara wrote:

> OK, I can make it 'depends on NET' instead. I guess it's no problem in
> this case since whoever wants quota is going to have NET enabled.
> The problem I sometimes have with 'depends on' is that the option is
> invisible until you have enabled all the dependencies so it's hard to
> a) find out that there exists and interesting feature (because it depends
> on something you are not used to turn on).
> b) you know the feature exists but you have to dig in Kconfigs to find out
> what you have to enable first...
> Maybe we could improve Kconfig to support other type of dependency that
> shows you the option even if these dependencies are not satisfied (probably in
> some other color) but allows you to only view help and unresolved
> dependencies...

(added Roman to CC)

I'd really appreciate this feature for precisely the same reasons indeed.
Roman, what do you think about it?

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
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