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

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Message-ID: <20070916180930.GA9455@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:09:30 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Matej Laitl <strohel@...il.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:10:06PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > But can you take a look at distingushing between non-selectable options
> > due to dependency issues and seleted-by symbols.
> 
> Do you have an example in mind? If a symbol is not changable, but still 
> visible, a select is usually involved.

On i86_64 (but I think the arch does not matter).
make defconfig
make menuconfig

At top-level menu I see:
--- Enable the block layer  --->

In block/Kconfig we have:
menuconfig BLOCK
       bool "Enable the block layer" if EMBEDDED
       default y

If EMBEDDED == n then we see the above.
And this was my first experience with this patch - and it
took me some thoughts to realise it was the "if EMBEDDED" part
that made it look like -*-

So maybe not something we see in many places but it is
there in the top-level menu.

	Sam
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