From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753949AbXDJWEZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:04:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753955AbXDJWEY (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:04:24 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:58926 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753949AbXDJWEP (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:04:15 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <461C09D6.40805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:04:06 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070408 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they > can be disabled whilst "walking" thorugh the parent menu (check the > videos [1], [2] to see what I mean), enabling for disabling lots of > options _quickly_. > > I'll send the patches (as a reply to this mail) piece by piece out > when I figure out the maintainers to Cc for each. > > [1] 6.04 MB(1000s) 70 sec http://jengelh.hopto.org/mc/without.ogg > [2] 1.96 MB(1000s) 44 sec http://jengelh.hopto.org/mc/with.ogg > (Ogg container, Theora Video, no audio) > > I have not poked on all subsystems (it is quite a lot), but I can > already give a glimpse (`ls -1`) of who gets one and who does not. > And, I am not completely finished changing some subsystems - but > the patches are already big enough for a first wave. I want to get > some feedback first. Thanks! I haven't watched your videos yet but I tried one of the patches - with make xconfig: OK - with make gconfig: OK - with make menuconfig: less so, because: When one switches a menuconfig _on_, one might miss that there are subsequent options to configure. (Although the availability of further options is indicated by the '--->' suffix to the menu title.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-- -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/