On Apr 21, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Kumar,
In message <AEA791B2-2BC0-49F7-9152- ACF6CA5671DC@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
I'm not an expert for the capabilities of Kconfig, but one looong list with hundrets of entries clearly makes no sense. We obviously need sum grouping / structuring.
IMHO there should be several options:
- for those who look for a board name, we should support this,
probably wih an initial selection by the first letter (case insensitive) of the board name.
like this: => board name => M => MPC837XERDB
- alternatively, it should be possible to restrict the choice by
selecting first processor architecture (ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, ...), then CPU (family) name, then board names.
like this: => Architecture => PPC => MPC83xx => MPC837XERDB
I vote for the second one.
You misunderstant what I meant. I don't think of havon one or the other of these options, but of offering *both* of them, so the user can chose one of the ways, whatever suits best for his current situation.
Oh, I dont know if we can do that in Kconfig w/o duplicating the option which I think Kconfig would get unhappy about.
- k