Hi, I have been using the kbuild system for 2 years now on. I am an IT student, and I just wanted to say some impressions I get from the actual system. First of all, I must say its impressive the engineering work that has been done to do such a good system. Then I would like to say what I think it is lacking of (the curses interface at least). 1.- Many times, althought you have the option to use sortcuts, they are really not usable, just because there are lots of them that are the same. So if there was any way to search for patterns within the same page, will be great. 2.- When you are looking for something, you search, and it tell you where it is, but you will have to repeat the search if you didn't note it down (if not too obvious) several times, the most of the times this is the first thing a newbie suffers. It would be great if appart from searching, you would put hiperlinks or something to go to the entries. 3.- When you finally get to the page where you have to change the macro, apart from the disadvantages in points 1 and 2, you have to search all around the page because they are not ordered in any way (but the programmer's have specified). I can understand that some are parts of different Kconfigs, and others are there because a dev dropped it there, but it is horrible to find something in there. That is why I would please ask for, althought respecting the tree levels, sort the menus alphabetically. 4.- And last but not least, I would love to have menus in some sort of sections/parts so that If I want to disable lapb protocol, I have a section of link protocols, and if I want to enable debugging features, I can go to a section inside the Kernel hacking menu (for example debugging) So a solution to this would be either do sections, or make maintainers use a logical menu tree for clasifying the entries. The "section" I propose is a little title on the head, like the one in Networking support (1st line) Hope you like this ideas and that some of them are really easier to do than I think they are to, Looking back for your response, Javier Domingo -- 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
