Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751703AbZLMRaB (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:30:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751465AbZLMRaA (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:30:00 -0500 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:42077 "HELO pfepb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750994AbZLMR37 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:29:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:28:55 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Nir Tzachar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nconfig v7 Message-ID: <20091213172855.GA11741@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <9b2db90b0912122323w25d2d815o70d0bd2f1e19a228@mail.gmail.com> <20091213115546.GA10592@merkur.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1871 Lines: 39 On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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. I did not check what nconfig does exactly - I just assumed it was the single_menu mode. I know several people has requested the possibility to see all ie. also hidden) symbols before. Sam -- 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/