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:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:45:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
cc:	Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.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>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	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

Hi,

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:

> 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

I don't like this, as this would attach special meaning to a menuconfig. 
menuconfig is really a type of config symbol, rather than a type of menu.
Potentially this could also be written as:

config FOO
	option menu
	...

bye, Roman
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