linux-kernel - Re: kconfig - a suggestion how to fix the select issue

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Message-Id: <E1Jskbi-00058h-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
Date:	Sun, 04 May 2008 22:14:50 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kconfig - a suggestion how to fix the select issue

In article <481E0E76.3060900@...il.com> you wrote:
> I've always really disliked the visibility thing. I believe it's not really 
> the core issue here but regardless of anything else, could we not "grey out" 
> non-selectable options with its helpt text still available? That's much more 
> the standard UI paradigm.

And beside that nothing stops us from verifying the dependencies of the
options after select is applied and refusing to save the (broken) config.

Gruss
Bernd
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