Messages in this thread | | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: kconfig: help includes dependency information | Date | Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:24:26 +0100 |
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Hi Sam, hi Roman,
Sam Ravnborg schrieb: > > Using the verbose config information and linking to their help texts > > would make it even more user friendly in my opinion. > > verbose config option - please explain what you have in mind here.
Example from drivers/char/Kconfig:
SERIAL_NONSTANDARD - the config option "Non-standard serial port support" - the verbose config option
please present the latter to the user, if not done already.
> > "depends on:" is not really needed, since you usually cannot select any > > option, where you didn't fulfill the dependencies, AFAICS. > > It is sometimes usefull to see what a specific config option is dependent > of. But you are right that it is not visible in menuconfig (today) when > "depends on" is not satisfied.
Yes, I've been told later, that you see that in xconfig. I only use either menuconfig or oldconfig, so I've never seen that before ;-)
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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