Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762362AbZLKTzx (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:55:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761823AbZLKTzu (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:55:50 -0500 Received: from borg.medozas.de ([188.40.89.202]:60450 "EHLO borg.medozas.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761752AbZLKTzt (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:55:49 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:55:53 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: nir.tzachar@gmail.com cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nconfig v7 Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LSU 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3792 Lines: 63 Hi, I gave nconfig a try, and here are a few suggestive points: - provide the same color scheme as menuconfig - I get a visual glitch (see Exhibit A below) in General setup (patch slapped onto 2.6.32); the left frame part is missing. - For symbol info, it would be cool if it wrapped the "Selected by" line (menuconfig also "suffers" from this), because that one can get exceptionally long and awkward to scroll. - I certainly like F4-Config-ShowAll :) but it has some glitches interfering near ARCH_DEFCONFIG (see Exhibit B). ----(Exhibit A) .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.32 Configuration ┌── General setup ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ [*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers │ () Local version - append to kernel release │ [ ] Automatically append version information to the version string │ [*] Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap) │ [*] System V IPC │ [*] POSIX Message Queues │ [*] BSD Process Accounting │ [ ] BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format │ [*] Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL) │ [*] Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL) │ [*] Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL) │ [*] Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL) │ [*] Auditing support │ [*] Enable system-call auditing support │ RCU Subsystem ---> │ < > Kernel .config support │ (17) Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB) │ [*] Group CPU scheduler │ │ │ │ │ └F1Help─F2Symbol Info─F3Instructions─F4Config─F5Back─F6Save─F7Load─F8Exit────┘ ---- ----(Exhibit B) ┌── Linux Kernel Configuration ──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ XXX 64-bit kernel │ │ XXX SPARC │ │ XXX SPARC32 │ │ XXX SPARC64 │ │ XXXch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig) ARCH_DEFCONFIG │ │ XXX) BITS │ │ XXX GENERIC_TIME │ ... ---- -- 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/