Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:55:53 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: observations on 2.5 config screens |
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:
[snippage] | > It seems that the final option, "Preemptible kernel", does | > not belong there. In fact, there seem to be a number of | > kernel-related, kind of hacking/debugging options, that | > could be collected in one place, like preemption, sysctl, | > hacking, executable file formats, etc. "Low-level kernel | > options", perhaps?
So long as they come after the processor selection or whatever dependencies they have.
| Should go to "General config" IMHO.
But is General Config still above processor selection? I made a patch for a second "More general config" at the end of the main menu so that dependencies can be used. Andrew Morton has it queued in -mm now.
| > Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) | > | > First, there's no hint from that heading that hot-pluggable | > settings are hidden under there as well. | | Well, PCMCIA pretty much suggests that, doesn't it? | | > In addition, why does "Bus options" not include the USB bus, | > the I2C bus, FireWire, etc? A bus is a bus, isn't it? | | Yes, this is a valid comment. Placing USB under "Bus options" | should be totally straightforward, but that one's for Greg KH | to decide.
USB needs to follow the Input subsystem unless there's something else going on regarding dependencies.
| > Multimedia devices | > | > How come "Sound" is not here? And (as we've already | > established), Radio Adapters is not a sub-entry of Video for | > Linux. :-) (And is there a reason why Amateur Radio Support | > and Radio Adapters are so far apart in the config menus?
I agree.
Greg Banks has (had) a real nice program for checking dependency ordering using Config.in files. It would be very nice if it now worked with Kconfig files. :) It could be used for this type of config reordering to verify that things weren't screwed up. I used it when I moved Network Devices to just under/after Network Options to show that no dependency ordering was mangled by that patch.
-- ~Randy
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