Re: observations on 2.5 config screens

[Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>]

> [rddunlap@osdl.org]
> 
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> 
> [snippage]
> | >     It seems that the final option, "Preemptible kernel", does
> | >   not belong there.  In fact, there seem to be a number of
> | >   kernel-related, kind of hacking/debugging options, that
> | >   could be collected in one place, like preemption, sysctl,
> | >   hacking, executable file formats, etc.  "Low-level kernel
> | >   options", perhaps?
> 
> So long as they come after the processor selection or whatever
> dependencies they have.

No longer an issue, see below.

> ...
>
> | > Multimedia devices
> | >
> | >     How come "Sound" is not here?  And (as we've already
> | >   established), Radio Adapters is not a sub-entry of Video for
> | >   Linux. :-)  (And is there a reason why Amateur Radio Support
> | >   and Radio Adapters are so far apart in the config menus?
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Greg Banks has (had) a real nice program for checking
> dependency ordering using Config.in files.  It would be
> very nice if it now worked with Kconfig files.  :)

Forward references work nicely with the new configurator,
see for yourself (patch against 2.5.53):

diff -urN a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
--- a/init/Kconfig	2002-12-16 07:02:05.000000000 +0100
+++ b/init/Kconfig	2003-01-02 03:49:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 
 menu "Code maturity level options"
 
+config HRM0PS
+	depends on HRMOPS_PREREQUISITE
+	bool "This proves that forward-referenced symbols work just fine"
+
 config EXPERIMENTAL
 	bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
 	---help---
diff -urN a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
--- a/net/Kconfig	2002-12-08 20:06:41.000000000 +0100
+++ b/net/Kconfig	2003-01-02 03:49:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 menu "Networking options"
 	depends on NET
 
+config HRMOPS_PREREQUISITE
+	bool "Switch this on for some serious HRM0PS!!"
+
 config PACKET
 	tristate "Packet socket"
 	---help---

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>