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-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
