linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig troubles when using menuconfig - Was: [patch]Re: [linux-usb-devel] linux-2.6.22-rc5-gf1518a0 build #300 failed in zc0301

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Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:11:38 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
cc:	Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Linux and Kernel Video <video4linux-list@...hat.com>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, toralf.foerster@....de,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@...dio.unibo.it>
Subject: Re: Kconfig troubles when using menuconfig - Was: [patch]Re:
 [linux-usb-devel] linux-2.6.22-rc5-gf1518a0 build #300 failed in zc0301_core.c


On Jun 23 2007 02:50, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> Ok, so we add this as solution 2.(c) to the reply I just sent to Jan :-)
>
> But I still prefer 2.(b) -- making the config scripts intelligent so that if a
> given "menuconfig FOO depends on BAR", then all the "config BAZ"s
> inside this menuconfig also automatically "depend on" BAR too.
> This is simpler in the long run because it requires least amount
> (actually none) of redundant typing and would continue to work in
> the future if/when the:
>
> menuconfig FOO
> if FOO
> ...
> endif # FOO
>
> idiom is converted to an:
>
> configmenu FOO
> ...
> endconfigmenu # FOO
>
> kind of idiom ...

Of course *this* *is* *the preferred* thing. (I think even Sam liked that one
better than the current menuconfig menuconfig confusion.) But, as always, you
need someone to code it, etc.


	Jan
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