linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

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Message-Id: <200709162100.09698.strohel@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:00:08 +0200
From:	Matej Laitl <strohel@...il.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

On Sunday 16 of September 2007 20:41:10 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Matej Laitl wrote:
> > menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select'
> > directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same
> > notation is used for comments.
> This is easy to fix - example below.
> 
> Now a comment looks like this
> 
>    *** This is a comment ***
> 
> Notice the three leading spaces which is where '---' was before.
> 
> 	Sam

Definitely this is the best solution for the comment ambiguity.

So my patch turned out to solve only these questions:
"What does the '--- Wireless extensions' mean? Included or excluded?"
"Why I cannot disable '<M> Option XXX'?"

Dunno if it is still worth merging. (but even if not, it at least made you
solve the comments problem) :)

Matěj.
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