Re: observations on 2.5 config screens

From: Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 23:10:07 EST


On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

| On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
|
| > 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.
|
| so are you saying that there should be no backward dependencies
| in the list of menus? i remember just that in the 2.4 screens,
| when you could select hardware sensors and then, on a
| subsequent screen, deselect I2C which would, as a result,
| deselect sensors on that previous screen.
|
| you're saying that, the way these menus are ordered, this
| type of thing should be avoided?

Tomas Szepe just corrected me on this...no longer an issue.

Thanks,

-- 
~Randy

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