2007-05-10 22:39:19

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:17:40 +0200 (MEST)
Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they
> can be disabled whilst "walking" thorugh the parent menu (check the
> videos [1], [2] to see what I mean), enabling for disabling lots of
> options _quickly_.

Well Martin's little tromp through the Kconfig menus meant that I had to
repair pretty much every one of these patches. Could you please have a
look at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/menuconfig/, see if I screwed
anything up?


2007-05-11 06:06:45

by Jan Engelhardt

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects


On May 10 2007 15:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they
>> can be disabled whilst "walking" thorugh the parent menu (check the
>> videos [1], [2] to see what I mean), enabling for disabling lots of
>> options _quickly_.
>
>Well Martin's little tromp through the Kconfig menus meant that I had to
>repair pretty much every one of these patches. Could you please have a
>look at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/menuconfig/, see if I screwed
>anything up?

Onto which tree/version do they apply now?

Jan
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2007-05-11 06:19:16

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects

On Fri, 11 May 2007 08:05:50 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On May 10 2007 15:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they
> >> can be disabled whilst "walking" thorugh the parent menu (check the
> >> videos [1], [2] to see what I mean), enabling for disabling lots of
> >> options _quickly_.
> >
> >Well Martin's little tromp through the Kconfig menus meant that I had to
> >repair pretty much every one of these patches. Could you please have a
> >look at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/menuconfig/, see if I screwed
> >anything up?
>
> Onto which tree/version do they apply now?
>

mainline, mostly. There may be slight differences due to stuff in maintainer
trees. But all the damage was in mainline.

2007-05-11 07:47:37

by Jan Engelhardt

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects


On May 10 2007 23:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Fri, 11 May 2007 08:05:50 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On May 10 2007 15:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they
>> >> can be disabled whilst "walking" thorugh the parent menu (check the
>> >> videos [1], [2] to see what I mean), enabling for disabling lots of
>> >> options _quickly_.
>> >
>> >Well Martin's little tromp through the Kconfig menus meant that I had to
>> >repair pretty much every one of these patches. Could you please have a
>> >look at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/menuconfig/, see if I screwed
>> >anything up?

There is not much to screw. If you missed to clean a "depends on"
line, that is not problematic.

Jan
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