Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] kconfig: rework symbol help text

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:15 AM Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series fixes several issues with help text generated by Kconfig,
> mainly affecting symbols that are defined in multiple places. Although
> results of these patches are somewhat visible for the symbols in Linux,
> what prompted me to write the series was working on U-Boot, which also
> uses Kconfig and makes very heavy use of multiple definitions (e.g. for
> overriding defaults). I have provided Linux examples where I could find
> them, but the example for the biggest patch (the first one) is taken
> from U-Boot because it was more illustrative than anything I could find
> in Linux.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Added explicit U-Boot version in commit message + other rewordings
> - Made the new "Depends on:" line print actual dependencies instead of
>   visibility to avoid an intra-series regression, and noted that in the
>   commit message.
> - Get rid of redundant "with prompt" and "without prompt" notes in
>   definition text, but continue to ensure that definitions with prompts
>   are printed before ones without.
> - Fixed checkpatch issues
> - Omit already-merged patch "kconfig: don't crash on NULL expressions in
>   expr_eq()"
>
> Thomas Hebb (3):
>   kconfig: list all definitions of a symbol in help text
>   kconfig: distinguish between dependencies and visibility in help text
>   kconfig: fix nesting of symbol help text

All applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks.


>  scripts/kconfig/expr.c |  3 +-
>  scripts/kconfig/expr.h |  1 +
>  scripts/kconfig/menu.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.24.1
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada