linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] kbuild configuration system improvements

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Message-Id: <20090722134321.34f1ebf7.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:43:21 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Cheng Renquan <crq@...nel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, crquan@...il.com,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kbuild configuration system improvements

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:21:38 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 04:11:42PM +0800, Cheng Renquan wrote:
> > From: Cheng Renquan <crquan@...il.com>
> > 
> > These patches improve usability of kernel configuration system,
> > 
> > 1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message;
> > 2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them
> >    be able to be shared with other configuration methods;
> > 3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config;
> > 
> >     0001-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depend.patch
> >     0002-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-more-infor.patch
> >     0003-menuconfig-improvements.patch
> >     0004-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch
> >     0005-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch
> >     0006-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-config.patch
> 
> I fixed them all up to:
> 1) include "kconfig:" prefix in subject
> 2) cc: of Roman Zippel which is kconfig maintainer
> 
> There were a few checkpatch issues that I decided to ignore for now.
> 
> Please always cc: Roman on kconfig patches as he is the mintainer.
> 
> Applied to kbuild-next.git.


FWIW, I still get a segfault in gconfig (as I reported several months ago).
I suppose that if it's a real issue, someone else will also see this.

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