All,
On Thursday 02 August 2012 16:18:47 Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> On 2012/08/02 15:32, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:17:51AM -0400, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> > > > * when searching for "DELAY" for example, I get results without numbers
> > > > to which I can't jump to:
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > │ Symbol: DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE [=0]
> > > > │ Type : integer
> > > > │
> > > > │
> > > > │ Symbol: IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80 [=0]
> > > > │ Type : integer
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > maybe because they don't have "---help---" section?
> > >
> > > Because they don't have a prompt - they don't appear in any menu at all.
> > > In that case there's nowhere to jump to. That's why those symbols don't
> > > get a number.
> >
> > Right, so how about you don't show them at all then?
>
> It's a search for CONFIG_ symbols not "menus". Even though the user
> doesn't have direct control over some symbols, it's still useful to know
> they exist and (possibly) what enables them. For example, searching for
> LOCKDEP tells me I can enable DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC to get it.
Agreed.
Consider this (very simple) situation :
config A
bool "A"
select B
config B
bool
config C
bool "C"
depends on B
Returning the symbol B in the search results allows to:
- see its dependencies -> to see why it is thus set
- see in what file it is defined -> to change the deps and/or selects
So, yes, returning prompt-less symbols as search results is important.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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