From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:00:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100414160043.7ffb1109.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC539DD.5040003@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:43:25 +0800 Li Zefan wrote:
> I noticed gconfig and xconfig have a button "Show all options",
> but that's a bit too much, and I think normally what we are not
> interested in those configs which have no prompt thus can't be
> changed by users.
Yes, I use that all of the time (i.e., once it has been set, it remains
set for the next execution, so I leave it that way).
> Exmaple:
>
> --- Tracers
> -*- Kernel Function Tracer
> - - Kernel Function Graph Tracer
> [*] Interrupts-off Latency Tracer
> - - Preemption-off Latency Tracer
> [*] Sysprof Tracer
>
> Here you can see 2 tracers are not selectable, and then can find
> out how to make them selectable.
>
> I also add this support for gconfig, but haven't done for xconfig.
>
> btw: are there many users using gconfig/xconfig today ?
I use xconfig quite a bit, but only use gconfig for making sure that
it still works or displays a menu tree correctly.
---
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 3:43 [PATCH 0/6] kconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts Li Zefan
2010-04-14 3:44 ` [PATCH 1/6] kconfig: some small fixes Li Zefan
2010-04-14 3:44 ` [PATCH 2/6] kconfig: fix zconfdump() Li Zefan
2010-04-14 3:44 ` [PATCH 3/6] gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype() Li Zefan
2010-04-14 3:44 ` [PATCH 4/6] gconfig: remove show_debug option Li Zefan
2010-04-14 3:46 ` [PATCH 5/6] menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts Li Zefan
2010-04-14 23:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-15 7:31 ` Li Zefan
2010-04-15 7:54 ` Michal Marek
2010-04-15 8:02 ` Li Zefan
2010-04-14 3:46 ` [PATCH 6/6] gconfig: add support to show hidden options that " Li Zefan
2010-04-14 23:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-15 7:43 ` Li Zefan
2010-04-14 13:57 ` [PATCH 0/6] kconfig: add support to show hidden options which " Michal Marek
2010-04-14 23:00 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2010-04-15 7:29 ` Li Zefan
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