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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:52:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:09:01AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > On Apr 11 2007 00:04, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > > > >[...] I tried one of the patches > > > - with make xconfig: OK > > > - with make gconfig: OK > > > - with make menuconfig: less so, because: > > >When one switches a menuconfig _on_, one might miss that there are > > >subsequent options to configure. (Although the availability of further > > >options is indicated by the '--->' suffix to the menu title.) > > > > The kconfig files had some menuconfigs for some time > > (CONFIG_EMBEDDED to be one). I do not think these menu entry types > > are unknown. > > And the EMBEDDED menu has the interesting property that it's not > empty with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n . that entire "Embedded" submenu is a hideous mis-design, as selecting it simply presents you with options you can now "*de-select*. that is *anything* but intuitive. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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