Re: [PATCH] MPT: make all Fusion MPT sub-choices singly selectable

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:54:18 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
> > Here's another option.  What do you think of it?
> 
> ...
> 
> > --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-git8.orig/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
> > +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-git8/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
> > @@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
> >
> > -menu "Fusion MPT device support"
> > +menuconfig FUSION
> > +	bool "Fusion MPT device support"
> >
> > -config FUSION
> > -	bool
> > -	default n
> > +if FUSION
> 
> ... more snip ...
> 
>   i suspect you already noticed that that's what i proposed in my
> followup posting.  :-)  my first suggestion explicitly didn't mess
> with the "Device Drivers" menu, only the underlying MPT submenu.

Actually I had not looked at that email yet -- have now.

>   my second posting went that extra step and added selection boxes to
> the Device Drivers menu entries themselves, although your solution is
> nicer than mine, surrounding the MPT entries with a single "if FUSION"
> rather than my adding a dependency to every selection.
> 
>   i'm willing to come up with some patches that match your suggestion,
> but what do others think of changing the fundamental layout of the
> Device Drivers menu (and perhaps other menus) to that extent by adding
> that extra selector?

I like it, but your question to "others" is good.
I.e., it would help to have more comments/consensus on this IMO.

---
~Randy
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