Help text under choice menu is never displayed because it does not have
symbol name associated with it, however many kconfigs have help text
under choice, assuming that it will be displayed when user selects help.
for example in Kconfig if we have:
choice
prompt "Choice"
---help---
HELP TEXT ...
config A
bool "A"
config B
bool "B"
endchoice
Without this patch "HELP TEXT" is not displayed when user selects help
option when "Choice" is highlighted from menuconfig or xconfig or
gconfig.
This patch changes the logic in menu_get_ext_help to display help for
cases which dont have symbol names like choice.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Reviewed-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Considering the following configuration:
config F
bool "F"
choice AB
bool "AB"
config A
bool "A"
config B
bool "B"
endchoice
if A
config D
bool
default y if F
select E
config E
bool "E"
endif
if B
config D
bool
default y if F
select E
config E
bool "E"
endif
The following configuration:
CONFIG_F=y
CONFIG_A=y
# CONFIG_B is not set
CONFIG_D=y
CONFIG_E=y
emits a spurious warning:
(D) selects E which has unmet direct dependencies (B)
If a symbol appears in two different branch of the tree, it should inherit the
dependency of both parent, not just the last one.
Reported-by: Yann E. Morin <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Tested-by: Yann E. Morin <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
nconf: handle comment entries within choice/endchoice
kconfig: fix warning
kconfig: Make expr_copy() take a const argument
kconfig: simplify select-with-unmet-direct-dependency warning
kconfig: add more S_INT and S_HEX consistency checks
kconfig: fix `zconfdebug' extern declaration
kconfig/conf: merge duplicate switch's case
kconfig: fix typos
kbuild/gconf: add dummy inline for bind_textdomain_codeset()
kbuild/nconf: fix spaces damage
kconfig: nuke second argument of conf_write_symbol()
kconfig: do not define AUTOCONF_INCLUDED
kconfig: the day kconfig warns about "select"-abuse has come
This lead to non-selected, non-user-selectable options to be written
out to .config. This is not only pointless, but also preventing the
user to be prompted should any of those options eventually become
visible (e.g. by de-selecting the *_AUTO options the "visible"
attribute was added for.
Furthermore it is quite logical for the "visible" attribute of a menu
to control the visibility of all contained prompts, which is what the
patch does.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This patch add more number consistency checkg, trying to catch the following
situation:
config FOO0
hex
default 42
config FOO1
string
config BAR0
int
default FOO1
config BAR1
hex
default FOO1
config FOO2
hex
default 42h
config FOO3
int
default "1bar"
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This option is aimed to add the possibility to control a menu's visibility
without adding dependency to the expression to all the submenu.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
This silences the warning printed upon prompt redefinition for the rootmenu.
We will encounter this redefinition when a "mainmenu" statement is specified and
override the default prompt.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
When we add a new config symbol save the file/line
so we later can refer to their location.
The information is saved as a property to a config symbol
because we may have multiple definitions of the same symbol.
This has the side-effect that a symbol always has
at least one property.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The "select" statement in Kconfig files allows the enabling of options
even if they have unmet direct dependencies (i.e. "depends on" expands
to "no"). Currently, the "depends on" clauses are used in calculating
the visibility but they do not affect the reverse dependencies in any
way.
The patch introduces additional tracking of the "depends on" statements
and prints a warning on selecting an option if its direct dependencies
are not met.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Those configs are not new:
$ cat .config
...
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
...
CONFIG_BLOCK=y
...
But are tagged as NEW:
$ yes "" | make config > myconf
$ cat myconf | grep '(NEW)'
Namespaces support (NAMESPACES) [Y/?] (NEW) y
...
Enable the block layer (BLOCK) [Y/?] (NEW) y
...
You can also notice this bug when using gconfig/xconfig.
It's because the SYMBOL_DEF_USER bit of an invisible symbol is cleared
when the config file is read:
int conf_read(const char *name)
{
...
for_all_symbols(i, sym) {
if (sym_has_value(sym) && !sym_is_choice_value(sym)) {
/* Reset values of generates values, so they'll appear
* as new, if they should become visible, but that
* doesn't quite work if the Kconfig and the saved
* configuration disagree.
*/
if (sym->visible == no && !conf_unsaved)
sym->flags &= ~SYMBOL_DEF_USER;
...
}
But a menu item which represents an invisible symbol is still
visible, if it's sub-menu is visible, so its SYMBOL_DEF_USER
bit should be set to indicate it's not NEW.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Without this patch, one has to refer to the Kconfig file to find
out the range of an integer/hex symbol.
│ Symbol: NR_CPUS [=4]
│ Type : integer
│ Range : [2 8]
│ Prompt: Maximum number of CPUs
│ Defined at arch/x86/Kconfig:761
│ Depends on: SMP [=y] && !MAXSMP [=n]
│ Location:
│ -> Processor type and features
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Randy suggested to print out the symbol type in gconfig.
Note this change does more than Randy's suggestion, that it also
affects menuconfig and "make config".
│ Symbol: BLOCK [=y]
│ Type : boolean
│ Prompt: Enable the block layer
│ Defined at block/Kconfig:4
│ Depends on: EMBEDDED [=n]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Usage:
Press <Z> to show all config symbols which have prompts.
Quote Tim Bird:
| I've been bitten by this numerous times. I most often
| use ftrace on ARM, but when I go back to x86, I almost
| always go through a sequence of searching for the
| function graph tracer in the menus, then realizing it's
| completely missing until I disable CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE.
|
| Is there any way to have the menu item appear, but be
| unsettable unless the SIZE option is disabled? I'm
| not a Kconfig guru...
I myself found this useful too. For example, I need to test
ftrace/tracing and want to be sure all the tracing features are
enabled, so I enter the "Tracers" menu, and press <Z> to
see if there is any config hidden.
I also noticed gconfig and xconfig have a button "Show all options",
but that's a bit too much, and I think normally what we are not
interested in those configs which have no prompt thus can't be
changed by users.
Exmaple:
--- Tracers
-*- Kernel Function Tracer
- - Kernel Function Graph Tracer
[*] Interrupts-off Latency Tracer
- - Preemption-off Latency Tracer
[*] Sysprof Tracer
Here you can see 2 tracers are not selectable, and then can find
out how to make them selectable.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
- fix a typo in documentation
- fix a typo in a printk on error
- fix comments in dialog_inputbox()
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This patch was inspired by the kernel projects page, where an ncurses
replacement for menuconfig was mentioned (by Sam Ravnborg).
Building on menuconfig, this patch implements a more modern look
interface using ncurses and ncurses' satellite libraries (menu, panel,
form). The implementation does not depend on lxdialog, which is
currently distributed with the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Futhermore, gconfig interface lack the "search a symbol" function, do later.
Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
[sam: fix SEGV in gconfig]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
