linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] kconfig: refactor package checks for GUI frontends

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Date:   Tue, 22 May 2018 17:53:39 +0200
From:   Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arvind Prasanna <arvindprasanna@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] kconfig: refactor package checks for GUI frontends

Hi Masahiro.

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 04:22:17PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 
> Kconfig supports 4 GUI frontends.
> Each of them needs some support packages, but checks them differently:
> 
>   qconf, gconf: check packages in Makefile (pkg-config is required)
>   mconf: lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
>   nconf: needs ncurses, but its presence is not checked
> 
> This series refactor the package checks so that all of them work
> in the same way.
> 
> The package check scripts have been moved to scripts/kconfig/*conf-cfg.sh
> 
> The motivation of this clean-up is Randy's following patch:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10277723/
> 
> I want to clean up existing code before adding more checks.

All patches in the series reviewed - fine.
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>

	Sam