From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030729AbXDJWli (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:41:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030731AbXDJWli (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:41:38 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:33528 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030729AbXDJWlh (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:41:37 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <461C1292.2040509@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:41:22 +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: David Lang CC: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects References: <461C09D6.40805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 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 David Lang wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> - 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.) > > I use menuconfig almost excludively, there are already quite a few cases > where the menuconfig is used, so you already need to watch out for the > '--->' when you turn it on. OK. > I haven't applied this patch series, but I definantly like the concept. > I spend a _lot_ of time with a new kernel going through and entering > menus for the sole purpose of disabling everything in them, being able > to do so from the level above would be nice. ... Actually, people who configure a kernel less than twice a year should be first heard on these matters. :-) You won't find many of those people here on LKML though. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-- -=-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/