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From: Matej Laitl <strohel@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:00:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709162100.09698.strohel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070916184110.GB9630@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Sunday 16 of September 2007 20:41:10 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Matej Laitl wrote:
> > menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select'
> > directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same
> > notation is used for comments.
> This is easy to fix - example below.
> 
> Now a comment looks like this
> 
>    *** This is a comment ***
> 
> Notice the three leading spaces which is where '---' was before.
> 
> 	Sam

Definitely this is the best solution for the comment ambiguity.

So my patch turned out to solve only these questions:
"What does the '--- Wireless extensions' mean? Included or excluded?"
"Why I cannot disable '<M> Option XXX'?"

Dunno if it is still worth merging. (but even if not, it at least made you
solve the comments problem) :)

Matěj.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-16 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-15 18:04 [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments Matej Laitl
2007-09-15 18:20 ` Matej Laitl
2007-09-15 18:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-15 18:44   ` Matej Laitl
2007-09-16  0:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-16 11:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-16 17:10   ` Roman Zippel
2007-09-16 18:09     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-16 19:38       ` Roman Zippel
2007-09-16 17:07 ` Roman Zippel
2007-09-16 17:44 ` [PATCH v3] " Matej Laitl
2007-09-16 17:59   ` Roman Zippel
2007-09-16 18:24     ` Matej Laitl
2007-09-16 19:36       ` Roman Zippel
2007-09-16 21:08         ` Matej Laitl
2007-09-16 18:41 ` [PATCH v2] " Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-16 19:00   ` Matej Laitl [this message]
2007-09-18 18:16 ` [PATCH] kconfig: menuconfig: change "---" items to "-*-", "-M-" or "- -" Matej Laitl

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