Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:02:27 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable |
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Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Works for me, but I don't see a lot of benefit from it. Actually I see >> two disadvantages of the patch: > > ... snip ... > >> - There are two out-of-tree FireWire drivers for special purposes ^^^^^^^^^^^ >> (one bus sniffer, one remote debugging aid) which might perhaps be >> candidates for integration into mainline. These drivers do not use >> the ieee1394 base driver. [...] > i've noticed this sort of thing before -- submenus containing entries > that don't actually depend on the top-level config variable. but > which drivers are you talking about here?
As yet non-existent drivers. (Out-of-tree drivers.)
> i'm looking at the > ieee1394/Kconfig file and every entry in that submenu appears to > depend explicitly on IEEE1394.
Correct. What I described is purely hypothetical in case of drivers/ieee1394. There surely are other submenus with actual independent entries. But AFAIU you didn't touch such menus of course.
[...] > in any event, as i mentioned earlier, i'm just trying to find a way to > make the menu entries more obvious and more easily selectable, without > having to enter each submenu to see what it represents. [...]
Yes, this and the points you made in the other post are definitely valid. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- ==-- =--=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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