[PATCH/RFC 0/4] user remarks for config symbols

[Bernhard Kaindl]

                              - RFC -

--- Comments, Reviews, Test reports, Notes, everything welcome ---

Hi,

I recently had the need to create a documentation for a kernel config,
and decided to extend the kernel config tool(s) to allow me to do that
with minium effort.

Specifically, I extended make xconfig (and now also others) for editing
a remark per config symbol and I created a config2html frontend to the
kconfig lib which outputs the config options with their comments to a
HTML table.

Besides that, it was sometimes been interesting to be able to add a
note for some config choices in order to see that note again when
revisiting that config choice again later.

So I hope that the patches which I created could be useable by the
greater Linux community, and hereby, I submit them for discussion
and if liked, for inclusion.

Thanks,
Bernhard Kaindl

Bernhard Kaindl (4):
  Support loading and saving custom remarks for config symbols
  menuconfig: allow editing of remarks for config symbols
  xconfig: allow editing of remarks for config symbols
  make config / oldconfig: allow editing of remarks for config symbols

 scripts/kconfig/conf.c             |   19 +++++++++++++
 scripts/kconfig/confdata.c         |   45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 scripts/kconfig/expr.h             |    1 +
 scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c |    3 ++
 scripts/kconfig/mconf.c            |   51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc           |   53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/kconfig/qconf.h            |   19 +++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

PS: Here is also an update to my CREDITS entry:

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <bernhard.kaindl@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 72b4878..a92c901 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -1714,11 +1714,11 @@ S: Tata
 S: Hungary
 
 N: Bernhard Kaindl
-E: bkaindl@xxxxxxxxx
-E: edv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+E: bernhard.kaindl@xxxxxxx
 D: Author of a menu based configuration tool, kmenu, which 
 D: is the predecessor of 'make menuconfig' and 'make xconfig'.
-D: digiboard driver update(modularisation work and 2.1.x upd)
+D: Various fixes for the kernel configuration tools
+D: Digiboard driver update (modularisation work and 2.1.x update)
 S: Tallak 95
 S: 8103 Rein
 S: Austria
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