Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:43:57 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig |
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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.
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