Re: [PATCH 2/2] init/Kconfig: use if/endif to surround the EXPERT menu kconfig symbols

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:09:47 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> > 
> > Surround the EXPERT menu with "if EXPERT" and "endif" so that it
> > is forced to stay as one unit.  Hopefully this will help to prevent
> > it being broken in the future.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> > Cc: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
> > ---
> >  init/Kconfig |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- lnx-2639-rc4.orig/init/Kconfig
> > +++ lnx-2639-rc4/init/Kconfig
> > @@ -924,15 +924,17 @@ menuconfig EXPERT
> >            environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
> >            Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
> >  
> > +if EXPERT
> > +
> >  config UID16
> > -	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
> > +	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls"
> >  	depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
> >  	default y
> >  	help
> >  	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
> >  
> 
> I don't like this, people who look up a Kconfig option typically only 
> look at the single entry and look for dependencies within it, not the 
> context in which it is declared in the Kconfig file.

I think I know a bit about how that's done.

People should use tools to look at dependencies (like nconfig, xconfig, oldconfig).
They report dependencies correctly.

and this patch goes a long way toward preventing menu problems.

so I nak your (implied) nak.

---
~Randy
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