linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 07:22:42 +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:
> [...]
> If you transform a menu with hidden options (which do NOT "depend on"
> the menu - they can't even) into a menuconfig (continuing not to
> depend on the menuconfig), the presentation fucks up (especially in
> ncurses-menuconfig). That is a good hint something should be taken
> more seriously.

Sorry, I didn't follow this "hidden options" thing at all ...

> So, for menus with hidden options I had a number of options how to
> go about them:
>
>  - move the hidden options before the menuconfig or after, so
>    the presentation does not bork;
>
>  - leave the menu as-is because there's just so many hidden
>    options and a menuconfig entry is detrimental

... but the second method seems sane and safe, still :-)

> So what do we need?
>
>  * 'configmenu' option (with 'endconfigmenu') that works the same as
>    'menu' and 'endmenu' (so we can have hidden options), but at the
>    same time make the ---> and options inside it disappear when it is
>    not selected. Currently, no other type seems to satisfy this.

(Yes, and with that implicit if-endif block to make "depends on" the
configmenu for those config options that are inside it automatic)

* Also, some "[MENU]" kind of prefix/tag in the text of configmenu
options would also be nice.

Satyam
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