linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method

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Message-ID: <87shye84u0.fsf@intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:45:11 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbif@...il.com>, yann.morin.1998@...e.fr
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method


Hi,

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:
> On 04/21/16 13:07, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> With a growing amount of Kernel configuration, it's
>> getting ever more difficult to find anything on
>> menuconfig. Because of that, implement mergesort for
>> kconfig to make it a little easier for anybody
>> building kernels.
>
> Hi,
>
> Please explain the problem and the solution better.  I don't
> get it.

it's unclear to me what you don't understand from description above. Try
to find and enable some random driver on menuconfig. Here's a
suggestion:

"Maxim Semiconductor MAX77843 PMIC Support"

In any case, the idea is the following:

menuconfig has too many options, they are unsorted -> sort them

-- 
balbi

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