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From: Yuval Turgeman <yuvalt@gmail.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Searching parameters in menuconfig
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:12:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ae345c00408310812212e371e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408311427110.981@scrub.home>

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:33:36 +0200 (CEST), Roman Zippel
<zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Andrew already commented on the coding style, so I can skip that.

Yeah sorry about that... I didn't read the CodingStyle doc... I'll pay
more attention to it from now on.

> You get to this information easier by iterating over the properties
> attached to a symbol (sym->prop) and a symbol can have multiple menu
> prompts, you show only the first one (which might not be the right one)
> and sym->prop->text might not even be a menu prompt at all.

Ok, I wasn't aware that a symbol could be located in several submenus
- I just tried to follow the build_conf routine.

> It would be nice to actually make it really useful, by first building a
> list of found symbols (and possibly allow wildcards for searching) and
> generate a menu of this. After a symbol is selected, build a new menu with
> all the prompts, which could also include the option to change parent
> symbols.

Yeah I tought about it also - I guess I'll try to implement this soon.  
The usability of the search can be improved a lot... this was just a
tiny prototype to help me find the parameter i was missing. :-)
Thanks!

-- 
Yuval Turgeman

      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-31  7:52 [PATCH] Searching parameters in menuconfig Yuval Turgeman
2004-08-31  9:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-31 14:33 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-31 15:12   ` Yuval Turgeman [this message]

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