Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753524AbZLMOZU (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:25:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753352AbZLMOZS (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:25:18 -0500 Received: from borg.medozas.de ([188.40.89.202]:55431 "HELO borg.medozas.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752117AbZLMOZQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:25:16 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:25:14 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Nir Tzachar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nconfig v7 In-Reply-To: <20091213115546.GA10592@merkur.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: References: <9b2db90b0912122323w25d2d815o70d0bd2f1e19a228@mail.gmail.com> <20091213115546.GA10592@merkur.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LSU 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1565 Lines: 32 On Sunday 2009-12-13 12:55, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >> >Thanks for catching this. It is a by-product of the code for >> >presenting everything inside a single menu. Easily fixed in the next >> >version. By the way, is anyone using this option at all? It would much >> >simplify the code if I did not have to support the one giant menu >> >option. >> >> Well nconfig is the first to provide that option. (Note: I don't use >> gconfig or xconfig, so I cannot tell if they have something like that.) >> So to see whether there is use, you would have to wait a number of >> kernel releases that have nconfig integrated. > >We already have: >Optional personality available > . ------------------------------ > . If you prefer to have all of the kernel options listed in a single > . menu, rather than the default multimenu hierarchy, run the menuconfig > . with MENUCONFIG_MODE environment variable set to single_menu. Example: > . > . make MENUCONFIG_MODE=single_menu menuconfig I think the discussion went about "show hidden symbols" rather than "show everything in a single menu". Or at least that was my intention - sorry for any confusion. -- 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/