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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:43:36 +0800
From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] gconfig: add support to show hidden options that
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Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:46:24 +0800 Li Zefan wrote:
> 
>> There's a button in gconfig to "Show all options", but I think
>> normally we are not interested in those configs which have no
>> prompt and thus can't be changed, so here I add a new button to
>> show hidden options which have prompts.
> 
> (The new option is called "Show all prompt options".)
> 
> These patches are looking good so far in my limited testing.
> 
> However, if gconfig is going to live, it needs at least one more thing:
> it should display the kconfig symbol type (tristate, boolean, etc.)
> like xconfig does (explicitly) and menuconfig does (by using [x] or <x>
> in the menu).
> 

Hmm, I think I can spend some time on this.