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Message-ID: <4648DE37.2080505@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 00:09:59 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 14.05.2007 22:33 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
>>   * Disabling this menu disables all the fluff inside it,

except when it doesn't.

> Another essential piece of information. I seem to remember other
> menus which, when disabled, kept the selection status of the
> options inside and just hid them from view.

It's a matter of /dependence/ on a menuconfig option whether options
inside the menu will be disabled.  Not a matter of being located in the
menu.

If menuconfig isn't used with strict discipline, we end up with
inconsistent and misleading presentation of the kernel configuration.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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