Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-08T08:42:42Z

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:35:22AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0200 Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly
> > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller
> > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected?
>
> I know that it's difficult to get people to read docs & help text,
> and maybe it is needed in more places, but CONFIG_ATA (SATA/PATA)
> help text says:
>
> NOTE: ATA enables basic SCSI support; *however*,
> 'SCSI disk support', 'SCSI tape support', or
> 'SCSI CDROM support' may also be needed,
> depending on your hardware configuration.
>
>
> A popup makes some sense, but I don't know if menuconfig knows how to
> do popup warnings... and it needs to be done for all *configs,
> not just menuconfig.
For menuconfig I would much rather see that it had an additional
window at the bottom displaying the help text for the active menu line.

Implementing support for a pop-up in the kconfig language seems to be a bit
off the purpose of the kconfig language.

Sam