Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 May 2008 21:32:34 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: kconfig - a suggestion how to fix the select issue |
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On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:28:54PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 04-05-08 09:10, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > >Today we have two ways to express/solve dependencies. > > > >Top-down we have "depends on" > >and bottom up we have "select". > > > >The "depends on" dependencies at the same > >time impact the visibility of a symbol. > >A symbol with "depends on" not satisfied are not > >visible and thus not shown in menuconfig. > > I've always really disliked the visibility thing. I believe it's not really > the core issue here but regardless of anything else, could we not "grey > out" non-selectable options with its helpt text still available? That's > much more the standard UI paradigm.
Works in xconfig - but last I tried I failed to enable it in menuconfig. It should be doable I just failed to see how.
And as my linux time-share for this month is already almost consumed I will not find time to look at it :-(
Sam
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