Please include Roman Zippel when you propose kconfig changes.
Sam
>
> Jan, have you looked at the effect these changes have when using xconfig, and
> not just menuconfig?
>
> While your changes make menuconfig better, they have nearly opposite effect on
> xconfig.
>
> xconfig has the menu tree display in the left panel, where one can see the
> overall layout of the menu tree and jump directly to any menu (even one
> multiple levels deep). All the menuconfigs that used to be menus don't show
> up here anymore.
>
> To turn a menuconfig off, you must go to the top level menu containing the
> menuconfig you want (and you must know which one that is!). Then you have to
> drill down through each menu level one by one, by finding that menu in the top
> panel (which also has all the config options listed) and clicking on it to get
> to the next one. When you get to the menuconfig you want, you must enter it
> and then you finally get the box to turn that menuconfig off.
>
> It looks like your changes are going in, so I suppose the solution is to
> improve the way xconfig handles "menuconfig".
>
> I wonder, would it be possible to change the kconfig language so that:
> menuconfig XXXX
> boolean "name of menu"
>
> Did the same thing as:
> config XXXX
> boolean "name of menu"
> menu "name of menu"
> depends on XXXX
>
> This way you could change this:
>
> menuconfig XXXX
> if XXXX
> [....all the other options....]
> endif
>
> Into this:
>
> menuconfig XXXX
> [....all the other options....]
> endmenu
>
> The reason is that a frontend would easily be able to understand the coupling
> between the "menuconfig XXXX" and the "if XXXX". It will make it easier for
> the frontend to see that all the options are inside and controlled by the
> enclosing menuconfig.
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