linux-kernel - Re: "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704111200330.14427@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>
Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:00:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
> On Apr 11 2007 05:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> On Apr 11 2007 05:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> >On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> >> On Apr 11 2007 03:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> A CONFIG_EMBEDDED bug. This should perhaps be changed.
> >> >> Or at best, deactivate the ---> part when it's N.
> >> >
> >> >  i'm not sure what you mean by "bug".  if what you mean is that it's
> >> >a bad choice of menu layout, i agree.  but what's happening there
> >> >is not technically "wrong" or "buggy" in the sense that it's
> >> >perfectly legal based on the current design of "menuconfig".
> >>
> >> Of course.
> >
> >ok, just checking that we were actually agreeing with one another.
> >:-)
>
> Wait, I forgot something:
>
> Of course, patches are welcome. :-P

i'd be happy to, but the only patch i'd be thinking of would be to
introduce that "dropdownmenuconfig" construct i mentioned, and i'm
sort of busy packing for california so it won't happen today. :-P

rday

p.s.  if anyone here is going to CELF 2007, i may run into you.  maybe
i'll wear something outrageously canadian to stand out in a crowd. :-)

-- 
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
========================================================================
-
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/