From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262285AbVF2JvK (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:51:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262288AbVF2JvK (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:51:10 -0400 Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]:22240 "EHLO mail-in-01.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262285AbVF2JvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:51:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:50:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC] menu -> menuconfig changes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There are many submenus in the config system where the fist option controls the availability of the remaining options. This is very inconvenient in menuconfig, since you'll have to enter each menu to see whether or not the corresponding subsystem is enabled. I suggest moving the first option out of the subsystem by changing 'menu' to 'menuconfig', as demonstrated by the patch below. --- ../linux-2.6.12/drivers/cdrom/Kconfig 2005-06-19 14:16:31.000000000 +0200 +++ ./drivers/cdrom/Kconfig 2005-06-29 11:27:02.000000000 +0200 @@ -2,11 +2,9 @@ # CDROM driver configuration # -menu "Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)" +menuconfig CD_NO_IDESCSI + bool "Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, IDE or ATAPI)" depends on ISA - -config CD_NO_IDESCSI - bool "Support non-SCSI/IDE/ATAPI CDROM drives" ---help--- If you have a CD-ROM drive that is neither SCSI nor IDE/ATAPI, say Y here, otherwise N. Read the CD-ROM-HOWTO, available from @@ -209,5 +207,3 @@ config CDU535 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called sonycd535. - -endmenu -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 83. Damn, and I just bought that pop...