On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:11:38AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This lead to non-selected, non-user-selectable options to be written
> out to .config. This is not only pointless, but also preventing the
> user to be prompted should any of those options eventually become
> visible (e.g. by de-selecting the *_AUTO options the "visible"
> attribute was added for.
>
> Furthermore it is quite logical for the "visible" attribute of a menu
> to control the visibility of all contained prompts, which is what the
> patch does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
It also fixes the issue that all{mod,yes}config set some options from
the invisible menus that cannot be selected interactively (e.g.
I2C_ALGOPCF, that is only selected by I2C_ELEKTOR on !SMP), so this
patch is
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
unless Arnaud has a good reason not to take it.
Michal
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