Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:40:27 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students |
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On Sun, 14 October 2007 19:01:28 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them > to this page (or email me):
Maybe this:
Allow removal of select from Kconfig files
Difficulty: 4
Many config options depend on other options is unrelated submenus. As a result, people have complained about not being able to select the desired option because they finding all dependencies is too complicated. Select solves this problem and creates a near-identical new one. Now it is just as hard to turn some options _off_ as it was before to turn others _on_.
The solution would be to have smarter tools that give the user information roughly like this: [ ] CONFIG_FOO If you enable this option, you will also enable CONFIG_BAR. Or : [x] CONFIG_BAR If you disable this option you will also disable CONFIG_FOO and CONFIG_FOO2.
Difficulty is somewhat increased by the number of tools that require such functionality. Support for xconfig and menuconfig appears to have priority as those users have a harder time grepping the kernel.
Jörn
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