Re: nconfig v7

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2009-12-13 12:55, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
>> >Thanks for catching this. It is a by-product of the code for
>> >presenting everything inside a single menu. Easily fixed in the next
>> >version. By the way, is anyone using this option at all? It would much
>> >simplify the code if I did not have to support the one giant menu
>> >option.
>> 
>> Well nconfig is the first to provide that option. (Note: I don't use 
>> gconfig or xconfig, so I cannot tell if they have something like that.)
>> So to see whether there is use, you would have to wait a number of 
>> kernel releases that have nconfig integrated.
>
>We already have:
>Optional personality available                                        
>  . ------------------------------                                     
>  . If you prefer to have all of the kernel options listed in a single  
>  . menu, rather than the default multimenu hierarchy, run the menuconfig
>  . with MENUCONFIG_MODE environment variable set to single_menu. Example:
>  .                                                                   
>  . make MENUCONFIG_MODE=single_menu menuconfig                        

I think the discussion went about "show hidden symbols" rather than
"show everything in a single menu". Or at least that was my intention -
sorry for any confusion.

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