When dealing with creating or maintaining a kernel configuration, one may want to remember why a certain symbol was set in a certain way. I've been working on enhancing the config tools keep and edit remarks entered by the user to make keeping remarks as simple as possible. The following patches show a simple approach to that which I used to quite some extent, tracking hundreds of comments, using the patched make xconfig, which makes editing them quite comfortable. This simple, and rather minimum approach leaves out some changes which I added to make xconfig to show the remark for the newly selected config symbol in the panel which shows additional info for that symbol. If the general idea finds support, I will, of course, also bring these additional changes to make xconfig forward, and I have a "config2html" which exports the configuration decisions taken, along with any remarks for them, to a html file using a simple table. Such export may be useful for community-oriented Linux distributions which like to do their kernel package management in an open environment, and may want do document the decisions taken in an efficient manner. I saw some efforts on be half of the Ubuntu kernel packagers group in that direction, but I am not affiliated in this regard with any distribution. Thanks, Bernhard Kaindl Bernhard Kaindl (4): Support loading and saving custom remarks for config symbols menuconfig: allow editing of remarks for config symbols xconfig: allow editing of remarks for config symbols make config / oldconfig: allow editing of remarks for config symbols scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 19 +++++++++++++ scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- scripts/kconfig/expr.h | 1 + scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c | 3 ++ scripts/kconfig/mconf.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/kconfig/qconf.h | 19 +++++++++++++ 7 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
