Re: CML2 1.0.0 release announcement

Jamie Lokier
2001-04-12T08:58:55Z

Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > * All three interfaces do progressive disclosure -- the user only sees
> > questions he/she needs to answer (no more hundreds of greyed-out menu
> > entries for irrelevant drivers!).
>
> Well, that sucks. The greyed-out menu entries were the only good
> thing about xconfig. Such entries provide a clue that you need
> to enable something else to get the feature you desire. Otherwise
> you might figure that the feature is missing, or that you have
> overlooked it.

I agree. I use menuconfig and it's pretty good, but sometimes I miss
the ability to go through all the available options and decide, one by
one, whether I want to enable the option.

Of course if I do not enable some PCI NIC driver, I do not need to see
special options for that driver. That's good. On the other hand, if I
am looking to enable RED, I won't realise that I need to enable
traffic shaping first to discover the RED option.

-- Jamie