Hi,
On 6/24/07, Trent Piepho <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 6/23/07, Trent Piepho <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Now all the usb drivers will gain USB as a dependency directly and can't be
> > set to something higher than USB.
>
> Ok, so we add this as solution 2.(c) to the reply I just sent to Jan :-)
>
> But I still prefer 2.(b) -- making the config scripts intelligent so that if a
> given "menuconfig FOO depends on BAR", then all the "config BAZ"s
> inside this menuconfig also automatically "depend on" BAR too.
Of course, there currently is no "inside" a menuconfig. You would have to do
something like make everything inside an "if FOO / endif" gain not just a
dependency on FOO, but also gain a dependency on all of FOO's dependencies.
Yes, making the config scripts do what you describe there
automagically is exactly what I meant there.
> This is simpler in the long run because it requires least amount
> (actually none) of redundant typing and would continue to work in
> the future if/when the:
> [...]
> configmenu FOO
> ...
> endconfigmenu # FOO
>
> kind of idiom ...
Like that I suggested here?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/524823
Basically, make menuconfig work like menu does, except the menu itself can be
turned on and off. Instead of having menuconfig work like a config, but with
some kind of "menu" hint. It seems like the former is more in line with what
menuconfig is actually used for.
Again, we're in complete agreement here (also like what Jan
mentioned elsewhere on this thread). But then there's often
too much "suggestions" on Kconfig/Kbuild matters on lkml,
but too little code (wonder if that was what got Roman
irritated yesterday). This may be because stuff in scripts/ doesn't
quite get the kind of eyeballs kernel/ or fs/ or even drivers/ gets,
but I guess the only way to get Roman around to our view would
be start submitting patches for the solutions we're all fond of
"suggesting" :-)
Satyam
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