Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:08:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:08:40 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:8453 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:08:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3E538479.1040305@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:19:53 +0100 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" CC: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: a really annoying feature of the config menu structure References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1355 Lines: 35 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i finally decided to get serious and start looking at the > overall config menu structure, to re-arrange the menus and > submenus so that it made more sense and flowed more logically, [...] > other areas where this would have made sense would be for > something like a "Networking" main menu, with submenus for > things like ISDN, Wireless and so on, those all being > subsets of networking. It isn't that simple. ISDN is more than networking, and even useable without it. Non-network uses of isdn: * Making an answering machine or voicemail from a pc and one or more isdn cards. * Use isdn for dialing into non-IP services like a BBS. So you have a choice between sticking all networking things in a network menu (and have stuff like ISDN spread out in different places (network and other ISDN at least) or put all ISDN in one plave and have network etc. spread over various networking technologies like today. There is no config layout that is "clean" for everybody, because it is fundamentally trying to stuff a generic graph into a hierarchical tree. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/