linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] re-order CONFIG_EXPERT options to fix menuconfig display

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Date:	Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:02:08 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] re-order CONFIG_EXPERT options to fix menuconfig display

On 04/24/13 13:04, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:39:38 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org> wrote:
> 
>> The kconfig language requires that dependent options all follow the
>> menuconfig symbol in order to be collapsed below it.  Recently some
>> hidden options were added below the EXPERT menuconfig, but did not
>> depend on EXPERT (because hidden options can't).  This broke the
>> display.  So re-order all these options, and while we're here stick
>> the PCI quirks under the EXPERT menu (since it isn't sitting with
>> any related options).
>>
>> Before this commit, we get:
>> 	[*] Configure standard kernel features (expert users)  --->
>> 	[ ] Sysctl syscall support
>> 	[*] Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops
>> 	...
>> 	[ ] Embedded system
>>
>> Now we get the older (and correct) behavior:
>> 	[*] Configure standard kernel features (expert users)  --->
>> 	[ ] Embedded system
>> And if you go into the expert menu you get the expert options:
>> 	[ ] Sysctl syscall support
>> 	[*] Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops
>> 	...
>>
> 
> This doesn't work as advertised when I graft it on top of
> http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/init-kconfig-make-expert-as-config-instead-of-menuconfig.patch
> (generally, assuming that next==mainline when we're at -rc8 is a low
> percentage move).
> 
> I think I'll drop
> init-kconfig-make-expert-as-config-instead-of-menuconfig.patch and take
> this one, but could everyone please review everything?

I agree, that's the right thing to do.

Zhangwei's patch description should have been a big hint to me:

There don't have any EXPERT menu guard, and no config item is included in
EXPERT menu, so change it as a config, not menu.

but that should not have been the case.


thanks,
-- 
~Randy
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