From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:37:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:37:45 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:62473 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:37:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3D298823.6040503@evision-ventures.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:40:03 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: pl, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Hards CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC patch] Config re-org for storage devices References: <200207082219.08470.bhards@bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.