Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] kconfig: menuconfig make "Selected by:" and "Depends on:" readable

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On 01/15/18 15:09, Petr Vorel wrote:
> rev_dep expressions can get rather unwieldy, especially if a symbol is
> selected by more than a handful of other symbols. I.e. it's possible to
> have near endless expressions like:
>    A && B && !C || D || F && (G || H) || [...]
> 
> Chop these expressions into actually readable chunks:
>    - A && B && !C
>    - D
>    - F && (G || H)
>    - [...]
> 
> I.e. transform the top level OR tokens into newlines and prepend each
> line with a minus. This makes the "Selected by:" blurb much easier to
> read. For consistency the same is done for "Depends on:" although the
> problem isn't that bad for it. This is done only if there is more than
> one top level OR.
> 
> This also prevents trimming too long lines.
> 
> Based on idea from Paul Bolle.
> 
> Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Tested on search USB and General setup -> Kernel compression mode (Gzip) -> Help.
> 
> Changes v3->v4:
> * Add split also for "Depends on:". This is done for consistency (reported
>   by Masahiro Yamada). I didn't consider other symbols which call expr_gstr_print()
>   as reasonable candidates (i.e. "Implies:" and "Range : ").
> * Add new line and hyphen only when there are more top level OR than one.
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/expr.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
>  scripts/kconfig/menu.c |  4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.


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~Randy
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