On 2016-01-11 21:11, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > On 11/01/16 08:35 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> I like the idea of allowing the user to select multiple profiles. >> However, there also needs to be a clean and simple way to select a >> single profile without going through the list and deselecting everything. > > Actually, while it would need to be extended to other platforms, on > ar71xx that is exactly what Minimal does. In fact, assuming your on the > first run of menuconfig (i.e. the only time defaults work, due to the > way KConfig works; this is also a problem for ALL_KMODS and ALL (that > de-selecting all kmods and for de-selecting all packages), if you > deselect Default, all the items selected will become unselected. I think that will not be clear to users at all, and it means you can't conveniently switch from a config with all profiles to one with just one profile enabled without re-making your changes.
> It is not possible with KConfig to have an *existing* .config and have > an option that causes deselection of selected items, that does not also > force deselection without the option to override (e.g. depends on > !MINIMAL won't work because it would force the item to off without > option to override). > > If you have some clever way to avoid this problem, I'd love to hear it, > because I don't know how to do it in KConfig. I don't see how to allow > an *overridable* deselection of *all* items, unless perhaps one could > introduce a new submenu that is a choice section (I'd have to test to > see if that would actually work, or if duplicate symbols would be a > problem). You could emit some extra code to have an option to select a single profile, which will deselect all profiles except for one that is selected by a choice value. - Felix _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
