From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 08:30:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 08:30:48 -0400 Received: from xsmtp.ethz.ch ([129.132.97.6]:3110 "EHLO xfe3.d.ethz.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 08:30:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEA3D8D.8090901@debian.org> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:29:01 +0200 From: Giacomo Catenazzi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc-Christian Petersen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: menuconfig|xconfig question In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 May 2002 12:30:46.0962 (UTC) FILETIME=[554E6920:01C200C3] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > Hi there, > > is it possible to have a message box popped up with menuconfig|xconfig if i > select something in the config? It would be nice, so really important things > are forced to the user. No. Every configuration option is important! (and in a lot of such configurations you will not boot if you choose the wrong option). So it is better not to have such popup box. It will only annoy users. Some configuration write some text between dangerous options, or create a sub menu with a warning text. ciao cate