[syslinux] submenus and menu title

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Tue Dec 4 04:14:58 PST 2012


On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:35 +0200, Ady wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 11:09 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 05:29 -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:
> > > > 2) code bug per doc/menu.txt: "Submenus inherit the properties of
> > > > their parent menus" however submenus do not inherit the title at this
> > > > time.
> > > 
> > > I'll take a look at implementing this for the case where the submenu
> > > doesn't specify MENU TITLE, MENU LABEL or a tag name, since that's the
> > > least intrusive change discussed in this thread and it blatantly doesn't
> > > work at the moment.
> > 
> > FYI this is queued up for Syslinux-5.00-pre10.
> > 
>  
> Hi Matt,
> 
> I tested this in 5.00pre10.
> 
> To maintain backward compatibility with previous versions (so the 
> previous behavior is maintained) while adding the expected behavior 
> that was not working, the submenu title should respect the following 
> fallback rules:
> 
> 1_ Submenu Title
> 2_ Menu Label
> 3_ Submenu Tagname
> 4_ Parent Menu
> 
> In 5.00pre10, fallback rules #2 and #3 are being skipped.

OK, I reverted this for -pre14.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center




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