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

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 08/15/04

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To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

    On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:37:49AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
    >
    > If I ever find time to look into it then my plan is to give
    > the user the possibility to see _all_ menus + symbols with a prompt.
    >
    > And for all symbols with a promt and with dependency information
    > to let the user enable a pop up window giving the possibility
    > to select all "Depends on" symbols.
    >
    >
    >
    > So consider:
    > config FOO
    > depends on BAR
    >
    > config BAR
    > select BAZ
    >
    > config BAZ
    >
    >
    > Then when pressing 'd' on the FOO symbol (which is marked
    > as invisible) the user will be prompted with:
    >
    > CONFIG_FOO
    >
    > Depends on:
    > CONFIG_BAR: [ ] "Prompt for BAR"

    Assuming I'm configuring a kernel for i386, what should I see when
    pressing 'd' on the following driver?

    config OAKNET
            tristate "National DP83902AV (Oak ethernet) support"
            depends on NET_ETHERNET && PPC && BROKEN
            select CRC32

    > ...
    >
    > Sam

    cu
    Adrian 

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