When the string is too long, only show the first COLS/2 bytes wide, to make sure there is some space to show the menu prompt. Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@xxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kconfig/nconf.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c index 4248759..4997ebf 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c @@ -887,8 +887,14 @@ static void build_conf(struct menu *menu) break; default: tmp = 2 + strlen(sym_get_string_value(sym)); - item_make(menu, 's', " (%s)", + if (tmp < COLS/2) + item_make(menu, 's', " (%s)", sym_get_string_value(sym)); + else { + char *s = strndupa(sym_get_string_value(sym), COLS/2); + strcpy(s + COLS/2 - 5, " ..."); + item_make(menu, 's', " (%s)", s); + } tmp = indent - tmp + 4; if (tmp < 0) tmp = 0; -- 1.7.6 -- 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