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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
	mchehab@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix undesirable side effect of adding "visible" menu attribute
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:26:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101216212614.GD21436@pobox.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D009D4A0200007800026DDB@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:11:38AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This lead to non-selected, non-user-selectable options to be written
> out to .config. This is not only pointless, but also preventing the
> user to be prompted should any of those options eventually become
> visible (e.g. by de-selecting the *_AUTO options the "visible"
> attribute was added for.
> 
> Furthermore it is quite logical for the "visible" attribute of a menu
> to control the visibility of all contained prompts, which is what the
> patch does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

It also fixes the issue that all{mod,yes}config set some options from
the invisible menus that cannot be selected interactively (e.g.
I2C_ALGOPCF, that is only selected by I2C_ELEKTOR on !SMP), so this
patch is

Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

unless Arnaud has a good reason not to take it.

Michal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-16 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-09  8:11 [PATCH] fix undesirable side effect of adding "visible" menu attribute Jan Beulich
2010-12-09 15:58 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-12-09 16:07   ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-12-09 16:40     ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-09 16:08   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-16 21:26 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2010-12-16 23:49   ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-12-17  2:03     ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-12-17  7:53       ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-29  9:19     ` Michal Marek
2010-12-29 15:17       ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-12-29 22:32         ` Michal Marek

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