From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756981Ab0DNXBW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:01:22 -0400 Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:16793 "EHLO acsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755166Ab0DNXBU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:01:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:00:43 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Li Zefan Cc: LKML , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts Message-Id: <20100414160043.7ffb1109.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <4BC539DD.5040003@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <4BC539DD.5040003@cn.fujitsu.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A0B0208.4BC6492F.01CE:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:43:25 +0800 Li Zefan wrote: > I noticed gconfig and xconfig have a button "Show all options", > but that's a bit too much, and I think normally what we are not > interested in those configs which have no prompt thus can't be > changed by users. Yes, I use that all of the time (i.e., once it has been set, it remains set for the next execution, so I leave it that way). > Exmaple: > > --- Tracers > -*- Kernel Function Tracer > - - Kernel Function Graph Tracer > [*] Interrupts-off Latency Tracer > - - Preemption-off Latency Tracer > [*] Sysprof Tracer > > Here you can see 2 tracers are not selectable, and then can find > out how to make them selectable. > > I also add this support for gconfig, but haven't done for xconfig. > > btw: are there many users using gconfig/xconfig today ? I use xconfig quite a bit, but only use gconfig for making sure that it still works or displays a menu tree correctly. --- ~Randy