From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964969AbWDGVeb (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:34:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964971AbWDGVeb (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:34:31 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:33422 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964969AbWDGVea (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:34:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:36:48 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Roman Zippel Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/POC] multiple CONFIG y/m/n Message-Id: <20060407143648.137a134d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20060406224134.0430e827.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20060407184400.GA9097@mars.ravnborg.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:24:44 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > In doing lots of kernel build testing, I often want to enable all options > > > in a sub-menu and their sub-sub-menus. Sound is one of the worst^W longest > > > of these, so I chose a shorter (easier) one to practice on: parport. > > If there is a general need for this we shal enhance kconfig with this. > > We shall not clutter the Kconfig files with this. > > I agree. > >From a general perspective I still like to add some basic command line > tool, which can be used for queries or simple manipulations. Here it also > would be less a problem to add experimental or distribution specific > functionality instead of overloading conf.c. > At some point I even had script bindings (via swig), so one could do even > weirder stuff. Yep, no problem with Sam's or your reply. Thanks for looking. --- ~Randy