Re: menuconfig displays dependencies [Was: select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG]

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:49:53AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:05:47AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
>  
> > > It would be nice in menuconfig to see what config symbol
> > > that has dependencies and/or side effects. 
> > 
> > xconfig has something like this, if you enable 'Debug Info', although it 
> > rather dumps the internal representation.
> > Adding something like this to menuconfig, would mean hacking lxdialog, 
> > which is rather at the bottom of the list of things I want to do. :)
> 
> Did a quick hack on this.
> When choosing help on "HCI BlueFRITZ! USB driver" menuconfig now displays:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> Depends on (select to enable this option):
> BT & USB
> Selects (will be enabled by this option): 
> FW_LOADER
>...
 
Unless I misunderstood Roman, FW_LOADER should be no longer selected.

But if the dependencies of BT_HCIBFUSB were
  depends on BT && USB && FW_LOADER
the dependency information was useless since the option itself isn't 
shown for FW_LOADER=n.

And even if the option was shown:
How should an average sysadmin configuring his own kernel know where on 
earth the FW_LOADER option is he has to enable?

> 	Sam
>...

cu
Adrian

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