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    menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts · 22c7eca6
    Li Zefan authored
    
    
    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: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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