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:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:57:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
cc:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	toralf.foerster@....de, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	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


On Jun 23 2007 02:26, Roman Zippel wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
>> But why? Let it do just one thing, and do it well. Is their
>> any requirement anywhere that requires us to give a dual
>> meaning to these menuconfig objects -- i.e. to also control
>> the inclusion / exclusion of code from the kernel as well as
>> also for the presentation + user interface purpose that it
>> currently serves?
>
>This getting ridiculous. :-(
>You're the one who is attaching a new meaning to it.
>Any config symbol has multiple meanings depending on the context, the menu 
>property only changes _one_ of them, you want to drastically redefine it 
>and that's not going to happen.

Would it make sense to define a new entity called "configmenu" (or something
else) that is equivalent to menuconfig with the following changes?

 * it creates a CM_ variable instead of a CONFIG_ one
 * the CM_ symbols are not available to Makefiles or C files
   (so in fact, just to menuconfig and that they are listed in .config)


	Jan
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