Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:44:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> > >  	while (1) {
> > >  		printf("%*s%s ", indent - 1, "", menu->prompt->text);
> > > +		switch (sym->maturity) {
> > > +		case M_EXPERIMENTAL:
> > > +			printf("(EXPERIMENTAL) ");
> > > +			break;
> > > +		case M_DEPRECATED:
> > > +			printf("(DEPRECATED) ");
> > > +			break;
> > > +		case M_OBSOLETE:
> > > +			printf("(OBSOLETE) ");
> > > +			break;
> > > +		case M_BROKEN:
> > > +			printf("(BROKEN) ");
> > > +			break;
> > > +		default:
> > > +			break;
> > > +		}
> > >  		if (sym->name)
> > >  			printf("(%s) ", sym->name);
> > >  		type = sym_get_type(sym);
> 
> for now, simon, why not just reduce this to supporting only DEPRECATED
> and OBSOLETE so that it can be at least tested as "proof of concept?"

The principle with letting a dependency add text to the promts are good.
But the implementation done by Simon with a language extension is not good.
A simple and better approach would be to use the newly added option
support for this and let the backend generate the promtps.

I have not yet tried to cook up a patch for it, but it should be
quite generaic and doable.

config EXPERIMENTAL
	option appendprompt=" (EXPERIMENTAL)

config DEPRECATED
	option appendprompt=" (DEPRECATED)

Then the dependency added will automatically append to the prompt.

It would probarly have be done in two steps. One that introduce a helper
function to retreive the prompt text and introduce it. And next a patch to
add a text if a symbol has a dependency on a symbol with a specific option
assigned.

	Sam