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Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:10:07 -0800 (PST)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: observations on 2.5 config screens
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

| On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
|
| > Greg Banks has (had) a real nice program for checking
| > dependency ordering using Config.in files.  It would be
| > very nice if it now worked with Kconfig files.  :)
| > It could be used for this type of config reordering to
| > verify that things weren't screwed up.  I used it when
| > I moved Network Devices to just under/after Network Options
| > to show that no dependency ordering was mangled by that patch.
|
| so are you saying that there should be no backward dependencies
| in the list of menus?  i remember just that in the 2.4 screens,
| when you could select hardware sensors and then, on a
| subsequent screen, deselect I2C which would, as a result,
| deselect sensors on that previous screen.
|
| you're saying that, the way these menus are ordered, this
| type of thing should be avoided?

Tomas Szepe just corrected me on this...no longer an issue.

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy

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