linux-kernel - Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

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Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:50:28 +0200
From:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
CC:	Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0200 Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly
>> give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller
>> while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected?
>>     
>
> I know that it's difficult to get people to read docs & help text,
> and maybe it is needed in more places, but CONFIG_ATA (SATA/PATA)
> help text says:
>
>   NOTE: ATA enables basic SCSI support; *however*,
>   'SCSI disk support', 'SCSI tape support', or
>   'SCSI CDROM support' may also be needed,
>   depending on your hardware configuration.
>
>
> A popup makes some sense, but I don't know if menuconfig knows how to
> do popup warnings... and it needs to be done for all *configs,
> not just menuconfig.
>   
A popup hardly ever makes sense - popups generally are a
bad user interface. The user will have to dismiss the popup -
every time - whether he needs the warning or not.

But feel free to print a warning somewhere, such as a
status line. The warning itself is useful, but not something
we will have to dismiss in order to go on with the job.

Helge Hafting



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