linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

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Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 08:12:10 +0530
From:	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	"Tilman Schmidt" <tilman@...p.cc>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

> On 5/15/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> > [...]
> > They are just a menu
>
> Ok, so they don't really affect Makefiles / sources (and thus builds).
> In that case I'd suggest that let's please change the names of such
> menuconfig options from CONFIG_ to CONFIG_MENU_, otherwise

Or perhaps we could change the text associated with these
"menu-only" dummy constructs instead ...

> we really screw the text-based "make oldconfig" folks who think
> that they're taking a build-related (and not presentation-related)
> decision when confronted with a:

So:

> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) (NETDEV_1000) [Y/n] (NEW)

becomes:

[MENU] Ethernet (1000 Mbit) (NETDEV_1000) [Y/n] (NEW)

?

Thanks,
Satyam
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