From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:25:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:25:22 -0500 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:58315 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:25:21 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 08:34:06 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: two more oddities with the fs/Kconfig file Message-ID: <20030112073406.GM21826@fs.tum.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:07:13AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > there are a few options that are categorized as simply > "bool", with no following label -- examples being UMSDOS, > QUOTACTL, and a couple of others. without a label on that > line, the option is not displayed for selection anywhere > on the menu. is this deliberate? >... Yes, this is what was called define_bool in the old kconfig. E.g. config QUOTACTL bool depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA default y says that QUOTACTL is automatically selected if XFS_QUOTA or QUOTA is selected. This is a config option that is never visible to the user configuring the kernel. > rday cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed