Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Remove menu_end_entry()

[Ulf Magnusson]

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2017-10-05 11:36 GMT+09:00 Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> menu_end_entry() is empty and completely unused as far as I can tell:
>>
>>         $ git log -G menu_end_entry --oneline
>>         a02f057 [PATCH] kconfig: improve error handling in the parser
>>         1da177e Linux-2.6.12-rc2
>>
>> Last one is the initial Git commit, where menu_end_entry() is empty as
>> well. I couldn't find anything that redefined it on Google either.
>>
>> It might be a debugging helper for setting a breakpoint after each
>> config, menuconfig, and comment is parsed. IMO it hurts more than it
>> helps in that case by making the parsing code look more complicated at a
>> glance than it really is, and I suspect it doesn't get used much.
>>
>> Tested by running the Kconfiglib test suite, which indirectly verifies
>> that the .config files generated by the C implementation for each
>> defconfig file in the kernel stays the same.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> Removing menu_end_entry() should be OK,
> but it is tedious to sync *.y and *_shipped.
>
> I'd like to apply v2 (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9992029/)
> on top of my patch (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10103743/)
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada

Fine by me, if people have no objections to adding Flex and Bison as build-time
requirements. Looks like you already went over it in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/19/49.

Cheers,
Ulf