Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2018-02-12 23:53 GMT+09:00 Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Masahiro Yamada
>> <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 'syncconfig' in a more proper name
>>
>> Wonder if --update-config-files-for-build or something would be an
>> even better name.
>
> I want to use a name that ends with 'config' like any other config targets
> because:
>
> - I want use the same name for scripts/kconfig/conf option
>   and Makefile target to take advantage of 'simple-targets'  [1]
>
> - I want to use pattern rule to descend into scripts/kconfig/  [2]
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.16-rc1/scripts/kconfig/Makefile#L84
> [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.16-rc1/Makefile#L506
>
>
>
> It would be possible to directly descend into scripts/kconfig/ like follows,
> but I do not have a good reason to break the convention.
>
> include/config/%.conf: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) include/config/auto.conf.cmd
>        $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig  update-config-files-for-build
>

Ah, right, didn't think of that. Thought it might be nice to hint that
it's related to the build phase somehow at least.

Not that important I guess. --syncconfig is a big improvement already.

Cheers,
Ulf
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