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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:21:11 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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Subject: Re: menuconfig displays dependencies [Was: select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG]
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:37:49AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> If I ever find time to look into it then my plan is to give
> the user the possibility to see _all_ menus + symbols with a prompt.
> 
> And for all symbols with a promt and with dependency information
> to let the user enable a pop up window giving the possibility
> to select all "Depends on" symbols.
> 
> 
> 
> So consider:
> config FOO
> 	depends on BAR
> 
> config BAR
> 	select BAZ
> 
> config BAZ
> 
> 
> Then when pressing 'd' on the FOO symbol (which is marked
> as invisible) the user will be prompted with:
> 
> CONFIG_FOO
> 
> Depends on:
> CONFIG_BAR: [ ] "Prompt for BAR"


Assuming I'm configuring a kernel for i386, what should I see when 
pressing 'd' on the following driver?


config OAKNET
        tristate "National DP83902AV (Oak ethernet) support"
        depends on NET_ETHERNET && PPC && BROKEN
        select CRC32



> ...
> 
> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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