Re: [PATCH 6/8] Kconfig: cleanup input menu

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 08:19:08 EST


On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:39:37PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2005 10:45, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, what about making some submenus to manage number of options, like in
> > > the patch below?
> >
> > I'd rather move it to the bottom and the menus had no dependencies.
> > Below is an alternative patch, which does a rather complete cleanup.
>
> This one looks nice. I still think that hardware port support should go
> first. My argument is:
>
> When I go into a menu I explore option and submenus from top to bottom.
> So I will see PS/2 or serial, and will go there and select what I need.
> Then I will see that generic input layer is also needed for keyboard
> and go there.
>
> If generic layer is first one I select options I think are needed I could
> skip over the HW I/O ports thinking that I already selected everything I
> need as far as keyboard/mouse goes.
>
> Does this make any sense?

Dmitry, will you make a patch that has the port options first? If no,
I'll likely merge Roman's patch.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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