[Buildroot] [git commit] boot: get rid of toplevel submenus

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Sep 19 07:07:17 UTC 2011


Le Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:54:29 +0200,
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> a écrit :

>  Thomas> My preference was the old way. Even if suboptions are
>  Thomas> indented,  I think it's a mess in menuconfig to have the
>  Thomas> U-Boot suboptions in the middle of the bootloader list.
> 
> I find the empty submenus when E.G. u-boot isn't enabled pretty ugly,

That could probably be fixed at the kconfig level, though I admit
making changes to this code is always a challenge.

> and use of a normal config is by far the most used option - E.G:
> 
> git grep '^menuconfig '|wc -l
> 10
> 
> Out of ~700 packages, bootloaders, filesystems, ..

It's not because it's the most commonly used option that I like it :)

Thomas
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