Re: menuconfig displays dependencies [Was: select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG]

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 08/14/04

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    Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:05:24 +0200
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

    On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:49:53AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
    > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:05:47AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
    >
    > > > It would be nice in menuconfig to see what config symbol
    > > > that has dependencies and/or side effects.
    > >
    > > xconfig has something like this, if you enable 'Debug Info', although it
    > > rather dumps the internal representation.
    > > Adding something like this to menuconfig, would mean hacking lxdialog,
    > > which is rather at the bottom of the list of things I want to do. :)
    >
    > Did a quick hack on this.
    > When choosing help on "HCI BlueFRITZ! USB driver" menuconfig now displays:
    >
    > -------------------------------------------------
    > Depends on (select to enable this option):
    > BT & USB
    > Selects (will be enabled by this option):
    > FW_LOADER
    >...
     
    Unless I misunderstood Roman, FW_LOADER should be no longer selected.

    But if the dependencies of BT_HCIBFUSB were
      depends on BT && USB && FW_LOADER
    the dependency information was useless since the option itself isn't
    shown for FW_LOADER=n.

    And even if the option was shown:
    How should an average sysadmin configuring his own kernel know where on
    earth the FW_LOADER option is he has to enable?

    > Sam
    >...

    cu
    Adrian 

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