Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Jan,

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:17:40 +0200 (MEST), 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

You might want to try the -q flag of quilt push and quilt pop.

> 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!
> 
> `ls -1`:
> 	menuconfig-acpi.diff
> 	menuconfig-apm.diff
> 	menuconfig-ata.diff
> 	menuconfig-block.diff
> 	menuconfig-connector.diff
> 	menuconfig-crypto.diff
> 	menuconfig-crypto2.diff
> 	menuconfig-dccp.diff
> 	menuconfig-fusion.diff
> 	menuconfig-i2c.diff
> 	menuconfig-i2o.diff
> 	menuconfig-ide.diff
> 	menuconfig-ieee1394.diff
> 	menuconfig-md.diff
> 	menuconfig-modules.diff
> 	menuconfig-mtd.diff
> 	menuconfig-net-ipvs.diff
> 	menuconfig-net-sctp.diff
> 	menuconfig-net-tipc.diff
> 	menuconfig-netdev-arcnet.diff
> 	menuconfig-netdev-phy.diff
> 	menuconfig-netdev-tr.diff
> 	menuconfig-netdev.diff
> 	menuconfig-oldcd.diff
> 	menuconfig-parport.diff
> 	menuconfig-pcihotplug.diff
> 	menuconfig-pcmcia.diff
> 	menuconfig-pnp.diff
> 	menuconfig-scsi.diff
> 	menuconfig-w1.diff

As far as I can see, the hwmon subsystem would benefit from that too.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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