Re: [RFC patch] Config re-org for storage devices

[Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>]

Użytkownik Brad Hards napisał:
> I'm looking at usability cleanups on the configuration files ([Cc]onfig.in).
> 
> The main concepts are to keep related menu entries together without excessive
> resort to 'misc" and "general", and to keep xconfig and menuconfig entries to
> about a screenful. Those two concepts are sometimes contradictory....
> 
> The current focus is on the various mass storage drivers. I plan to group them
> all under a single menu entry (done for i386, easily extensible to other arch,
> except for sparc of course). The main changes are pulling the parallel port
> IDE stuff out of the rest of block to a separate menu item, pulling QIC02 and
> ftape out of the rest of char(!) and some (fairly dubious) changes to the way
> IDE configuration works.
> 
> Find below a draft patch for comment. Even fflames would be good - at least it
> would show people read this stuff.

Looked thorugh it. No need for flaming found. The IDE changes are
fine. However a "subsystem by subsystem" patch approach would
help, since I could for example pull the stuff I care about out
and test it without regression concerns for the other things.