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[1/5] kconfig: add an option to determine a menu's visibility

Message ID 20101126161511.GD9418@sepie.suse.cz (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Michal Marek Nov. 26, 2010, 4:15 p.m. UTC
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Michal Marek May 2, 2011, 3:33 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:38:02AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:17:36 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:15:11 +0100 Michal Marek wrote:
> > > Subject: [PATCH] kconfig: Document the new "visible if" syntax
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can we get this kconfig-language.txt patch added to the kernel source tree, please?

Thanks for the reminder, I pushed it to kbuild-2.6.git#kconfig now.

Michal
> 
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > > index 2fe93ca..2522cca 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > > @@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
> > >  	the illegal configurations all over.
> > >  	kconfig should one day warn about such things.
> > >  
> > > +- limiting menu display: "visible if" <expr>
> > > +  This attribute is only applicable to menu blocks, if the condition is
> > > +  false, the menu block is not displayed to the user (the symbols
> > > +  contained there can still be selected by other symbols, though). It is
> > > +  similar to a conditional "prompt" attribude for individual menu
> > > +  entries.
> > > +
> > 
> > Default value of "visible" is true ??
> > 
> > >  - numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
> > >    This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int
> > >    and hex symbols. The user can only input a value which is larger than
> > > @@ -300,7 +307,8 @@ menu:
> > >  	"endmenu"
> > >  
> > >  This defines a menu block, see "Menu structure" above for more
> > > -information. The only possible options are dependencies.
> > > +information. The only possible options are dependencies and "visible"
> > > +attributes.
> > >  
> > >  if:
> > >  
> > > --
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
index 2fe93ca..2522cca 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@  applicable everywhere (see syntax).
 	the illegal configurations all over.
 	kconfig should one day warn about such things.
 
+- limiting menu display: "visible if" <expr>
+  This attribute is only applicable to menu blocks, if the condition is
+  false, the menu block is not displayed to the user (the symbols
+  contained there can still be selected by other symbols, though). It is
+  similar to a conditional "prompt" attribude for individual menu
+  entries.
+
 - numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
   This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int
   and hex symbols. The user can only input a value which is larger than
@@ -300,7 +307,8 @@  menu:
 	"endmenu"
 
 This defines a menu block, see "Menu structure" above for more
-information. The only possible options are dependencies.
+information. The only possible options are dependencies and "visible"
+attributes.
 
 if: