Hi,

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Joe Korty wrote:

> The (undocumented) kbuild 'menuconfig' command,

Not anymore with 2.5.71. :)

> eg, as used by the
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED configurable, does not behave well under 'make gconfig'.

I know and you have to ask Romain Lievin for a fix.

> Also, it would be nice to know what the kbuild menuconfig command does.
> It is not documented in Documentation/kbuild/*.  It is used in only two
> places across all Kconfig's so it is hard to figure out what it is about
> by example.  Perhaps in the interests of KISS it can be eliminated?

It's not meant to be used that often and actually CONFIG_EMBEDDED is a bad 
example and should probably be changed into a normal config.
Try the patch below with menuconfig or xconfig for a more useful use of 
menuconfig.

bye, Roman

Index: net/Kconfig
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/src/cvsroot/linux-2.5/net/Kconfig,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.8
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.8 Kconfig
--- net/Kconfig 27 May 2003 17:14:42 -0000      1.1.1.8
+++ net/Kconfig 15 Jun 2003 17:15:24 -0000
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 # Network configuration
 #
 
-menu "Networking support"
-
 config NET
        bool "Networking support"
        ---help---
@@ -675,4 +673,3 @@ endmenu
 
 source "drivers/net/Kconfig"
 
-endmenu
Index: drivers/net/Kconfig
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/src/cvsroot/linux-2.5/drivers/net/Kconfig,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.15
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.15 Kconfig
--- drivers/net/Kconfig 14 Jun 2003 23:04:21 -0000      1.1.1.15
+++ drivers/net/Kconfig 15 Jun 2003 17:15:24 -0000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Network device configuration
 #
 
-config NETDEVICES
+menuconfig NETDEVICES
        depends on NET
        bool "Network device support"
        ---help---



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