[Bug uprobes/4738] UPROBES_SSOL and URETPROBES must depend on UPROBES in Kconfig

[jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com]

------- Additional Comments From jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com  2007-07-11 17:25 -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> > > I disagree. If you follow that caveat, then why aren't KRETPROBES and
> > > JPROBES in Kconfig?
> > 
> > According to Dave H, they should be.
> 
> I am sorry, I don't agree. If you go by that convention with the kernel,

... as the kernel community seems to be doing...

> you'd have a terribly unmanagable Kconfig.

... and yet Linux survives.
> 
> ...
>  
> > Again (and again and again), they shouldn't show up as user-configurable options
> > in make *config under any circumstances.
> 
> Then simply remove it from Kconfig.

No.

> I am not OK with having it in
> Kconfig if it is not user configurable.

Got it.  When we post uprobes to LKML, if there's an outcry about this, and it
turns out Dave H was wrong, and patches are submitted to remove those hundreds
of promptless entries in arch/*/Kconfig, I'll fix uprobes.


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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED


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