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    SubjectRe: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig
    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.

    Sam
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