From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755846AbZBWPKd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:10:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753790AbZBWPKT (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:10:19 -0500 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.188]:24359 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753478AbZBWPKR (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:10:17 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; b=a7LlNaVj/0iDLmNR5e1UAg0m3IcnRJsLwyyngeHDtS4xSSDSuxlAmOfln/PKaJ5SYk SnaFKU+cjsf3T+oTcQlleRbjNCimm5MoxW1Vc8eg/YE2lY4zkHoGXJe+6f+bFAJS9d7A 4YaoyXDSh4P/ry6CgCri70mwElbQbj/k4kVHA= From: Cheng Renquan To: Randy Dunlap , Sam Ravnborg , Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cr_quan@163.com Subject: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:09:58 +0800 Message-Id: <1235401804-8136-1-git-send-email-crquan@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.0.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system, mainly, 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--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch 0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch 0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch 0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch 0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch 0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be in another patch. Request for comments, thanks. -- Cheng Renquan, Shenzhen, China