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SubjectRe: nconfig v7
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> 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.

I did not check what nconfig does exactly - I just assumed it was
the single_menu mode.
I know several people has requested the possibility to see all
ie. also hidden) symbols before.

Sam


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