Re: [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Fix break in middle of EXPERT menu

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 05/11/15 11:13, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Commit e1abf2cc8d5 ("bpf: Fix the build on BPF_SYSCALL=y &&
> !CONFIG_TRACING kernels, make it more configurable") made BPF_SYSCALL no
> longer hidden with !EXPERT, but left it in the middle of the EXPERT
> menu.  menuconfig stops putting config items under a submenu once it
> encounters an item that doesn't depend on the menu's config item, so
> this caused the remainder of the EXPERT menu to spill out into the
> containing menu around it.  Fix by moving BPF_SYSCALL before the EXPERT
> menu, next to BPF.
> 
> Fixes: e1abf2cc8d5 ("bpf: Fix the build on BPF_SYSCALL=y && !CONFIG_TRACING kernels, make it more configurable")
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> ---
> 
> Ingo, do you want to take this through -tip?  Or should this go through some
> other tree?
> 
> I'm also thinking about splitting the entire EXPERT menu into a separate
> Kconfig.expert and including it from init/Kconfig, to make it clear that
> everything in that menu should only be visible if EXPERT.  Right now, the long
> EXPERT menu blends into the longer init/Kconfig, and issues like this happen
> every few kernel releases.

Please do make it more difficult to break this.  I have also fixed this
a few times IIRC.


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~Randy