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Message-ID: <461C1292.2040509@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:41:22 +0200 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: David Lang <david.lang@...italinsight.com> CC: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects David Lang wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> - 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.) > > I use menuconfig almost excludively, there are already quite a few cases > where the menuconfig is used, so you already need to watch out for the > '--->' when you turn it on. OK. > I haven't applied this patch series, but I definantly like the concept. > I spend a _lot_ of time with a new kernel going through and entering > menus for the sole purpose of disabling everything in them, being able > to do so from the level above would be nice. ... Actually, people who configure a kernel less than twice a year should be first heard on these matters. :-) You won't find many of those people here on LKML though. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-- -=-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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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