Re: [PATCH][RFC] Restructure Device Driver menu entries

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Dec 06 2006 - 15:11:59 EST


On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:33:46 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
> This is a *proposed* restructuring of the DD menu so that one can
> see and select/de-select entire submenus without having to enter each
> submenu. It's also immediately obvious visually which submenus are
> currently active.
>
> Based on Randy Dunlap's earlier suggestion, it uses the kbuild
> "menuconfig" feature. I changed only those sub-entries that matched
> an obvious pattern (that is, selectable in their entirety). If there
> was *anything* slightly different about that sub-entry, I left it
> alone. (That doesn't mean that those sub-entries can't be similarly
> tweaked with a minimum of effort, I was just keeping it simple for
> now.)
>
> Finally, if this structure is used, there's still a good deal of
> cleanup that can be done on each Kconfig file. For example, if most
> of the mtd Kconfig file is now surrounded by

The FUSION part has a dependency that I'll leave for you:

Warning! Found recursive dependency: FUSION FUSION_SPI FUSION

reported by any "make *config".

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~Randy
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