Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5] kconfig: Introduce "showif" to factor out conditions on visibility | From | Paul Bolle <> | Date | Wed, 20 May 2015 12:00:13 +0200 |
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Hi Josh,
On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 08:36 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > kconfig implicitly creates a submenu whenever a series of symbols all > have dependencies or prompt-visibility expressions that all depend on a > preceeding symbol. For instance, the series of symbols following > "menuconfig EXPERT" that all have "if EXPERT" on their prompt will all > appear as a submenu of EXPERT. > > However, this implicit submenuing will break if any intervening symbol > loses its "if EXPERT"; doing so causes the subsequent symbols to appear > in the parent menu ("General setup"). This has happened many times, and > it's easy to miss that the entire block should have that same > expression. > > For submenus created from "depends" dependencies, these can be converted > to a single wrapping "if expr ... endif" block around all the submenu > items. However, there's no equivalent for invisible items, for which > the prompt is hidden but the symbol may potentially be enabled. For > instance, many items in the EXPERT menu are hidden if EXPERT is > disabled, but they have "default y" or are determined by some other > expression.
No one has reacted so far. So my plan to have the other people on linux-kbuild do the work here is not going as I'd hoped. Bother...
I seem to remember that you had a list of three dozen menuconfig instances that ran into the same issue as EXPERT's menuconfig. Do you still have that list at hand?
Thanks,
Paul Bolle
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