linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] kconfig: rework symbol help text

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Date:   Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:57:23 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] kconfig: rework symbol help text

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 5:19 PM Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@...il.com> 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.

Nice patch set.
Thanks for sending it to kbuild ML first
(then you or somebody else will backport it to U-Boot)


BTW, talking about U-Boot, it abuses the multi-definition feature too much.
This always causes broken dependency when U-Boot migrate
CONFIG options to Kconfig.  :-/

For my arm64 boards, I used CONFIG_POSITION_INDEPENDENT
instead of coping with CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE mess...



> Thomas Hebb (4):
>   kconfig: list all definitions of a symbol in help text
>   kconfig: don't crash on NULL expressions in expr_eq()
>   kconfig: distinguish between dependencies and visibility in help text
>   kconfig: fix nesting of symbol help text
>
>  scripts/kconfig/expr.c |  8 +++--
>  scripts/kconfig/expr.h |  1 +
>  scripts/kconfig/menu.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.24.0
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada