From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758020AbYEDTcP (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 15:32:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754873AbYEDTcA (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 15:32:00 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:47211 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754602AbYEDTb7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 15:31:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 21:32:34 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Rene Herman Cc: Roman Zippel , linux-kbuild , LKML Subject: Re: kconfig - a suggestion how to fix the select issue Message-ID: <20080504193234.GB23846@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080504071041.GA15315@uranus.ravnborg.org> <481E0E76.3060900@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <481E0E76.3060900@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:28:54PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 04-05-08 09:10, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > >Today we have two ways to express/solve dependencies. > > > >Top-down we have "depends on" > >and bottom up we have "select". > > > >The "depends on" dependencies at the same > >time impact the visibility of a symbol. > >A symbol with "depends on" not satisfied are not > >visible and thus not shown in menuconfig. > > 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. Works in xconfig - but last I tried I failed to enable it in menuconfig. It should be doable I just failed to see how. And as my linux time-share for this month is already almost consumed I will not find time to look at it :-( Sam