Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects

Stefan Richter
2007-04-10T22:04:25Z

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they
> can be disabled whilst "walking" thorugh the parent menu (check the
> videos [1], [2] to see what I mean), enabling for disabling lots of
> options _quickly_.
>
> I'll send the patches (as a reply to this mail) piece by piece out
> when I figure out the maintainers to Cc for each.
>
> [1] 6.04 MB(1000s) 70 sec http://jengelh.hopto.org/mc/without.ogg
> [2] 1.96 MB(1000s) 44 sec http://jengelh.hopto.org/mc/with.ogg
> (Ogg container, Theora Video, no audio)
>
> I have not poked on all subsystems (it is quite a lot), but I can
> already give a glimpse (`ls -1`) of who gets one and who does not.
> And, I am not completely finished changing some subsystems - but
> the patches are already big enough for a first wave. I want to get
> some feedback first. Thanks!

I haven't watched your videos yet but I tried one of the patches
- with make xconfig: OK
- with make gconfig: OK
- with make menuconfig: less so, because:
When one switches a menuconfig _on_, one might miss that there are
subsequent options to configure. (Although the availability of further
options is indicated by the '--->' suffix to the menu title.)
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Stefan Richter
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