Hello everybody! [[ Please keep me CC'ed. Thank you. ]]
I just tried looking at NF_CONNTRACK_MARK (menuconfig, in 2.6.23.12), and found it disallowed. So I took a look at "Help", and saw that blob: Selected by: NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK && NET && INET && NETFILTER && NETFILTER_XTABLES && (IP_NF_MANGLE || IP6_NF_MANGLE) && NF_CONNTRACK || NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK && NET && INET && NETFILTER && NETFILTER_XTABLES && NF_CONNTRACK || IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP && NET && INET && NETFILTER && IP_NF_MANGLE && EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 That is a _bit_ unreadable. Now breaking that into multiple lines would show me this: NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK && NET && INET && NETFILTER && NETFILTER_XTABLES && (IP_NF_MANGLE || IP6_NF_MANGLE) && NF_CONNTRACK || NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK && NET && INET && NETFILTER && NETFILTER_XTABLES && NF_CONNTRACK || IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP && NET && INET && NETFILTER && IP_NF_MANGLE && EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 Is that correct? If yes, how about putting such line-breaks in the shown text? Furthermore ... how about removing duplicate symbols from there? A bit of editing shows me 1 EXPERIMENTAL 3 INET 1 IP6_NF_MANGLE 2 IP_NF_MANGLE 1 IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP 3 NET 3 NETFILTER 2 NETFILTER_XTABLES 1 NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK 1 NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK 2 NF_CONNTRACK 1 NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 Now I wonder ... complete reductions of this might be a bit awful, but repeated INET && ... || INET && ... || INET && ... could surely be made shorter. It would be nice (depending on your value of "nice", of course :-)) to see NET && INET && NETFILTER && NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK && NETFILTER_XTABLES && (IP_NF_MANGLE || IP6_NF_MANGLE) && NF_CONNTRACK || NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK && NETFILTER_XTABLES && NF_CONNTRACK || IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP && IP_NF_MANGLE && EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 I'm not sure whether it would be worth the additional work to get NET && INET && NETFILTER && ( NETFILTER_XTABLES && NF_CONNTRACK && ( NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK && NETFILTER_XTABLES ) || ( NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK && NF_CONNTRACK && (IP_NF_MANGLE || IP6_NF_MANGLE) ) || IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP && IP_NF_MANGLE && EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 (if I translated that correctly, manually) Would there be interest if I supplied some script (perl would be easiest for me) that tried to simplify such strings? Calling that from C wouldn't be nice, but acceptable for the occasional help text showing. There has to be some expression parser for that ... could that be used? Where gets this string built? As a side-node - I cannot get xconfig to work (pkg-config); is there some way in menuconfig to see why some config option is disallowed? The location tree shows some data ("-> Networking support (NET [=y])"), but not for all dependencies. [Does xconfig allow enabling them while seeing this option?] Regards, Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/