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Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 02:45:42 +0100
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] top-level config menu dependencies
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Hi,

Tomas Szepe wrote:

> If I understand you correctly, what you are proposing is equivalent
> to how the following currently works:
> 
> config MTD
>         tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support"
> 
> menu "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support"
>         depends on MTD
> 
> ...
> 
> endmenu
> 
> It seems to me the infrastructure you've provided by kconfig
> is completely sufficient -- it's the config frontends that would
> require minor updates (xconfig mainly, menuconfig seems to be
> working nicely -- at least with the setup I outlined above).

Have you tried this with xconfig? What do you mean with "minor updates"?
I don't want to add some special magic, I'd rather make this explicit in
the syntax.

bye, Roman
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