mail archive of the barebox mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: sync with linux kernel v2.6.35-4771-g1787985
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:35:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100814043516.GB24191@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100813192612.GA8351@merkur.ravnborg.org>

> We could instead pick this up from the mainmenu entry.
> 
> So we in a Kconfig file could have:
> 
> mainmenu "My application configuration - version $VERSION"
> 
> config VERSION
> 	string
> 	option env=VERSION
> 
> 
> The text in mainmenu will have all references to $SOMETHING
> expanded to the string representation of that symbol.
> 
> And we can use existing functionality to pick up environment variables.
> 
> The frontends needs to be adapted as well as the kconfig backend.
> 
> But doing the above I guess we have 'fixed' almost all kernel references.
I like it

and how about the new set/select option I mention also?

because I also take a look in the kernel for ARM as example and it will be
usefull to simplify it

Best Regards,
J.

_______________________________________________
barebox mailing list
barebox@lists.infradead.org
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-14  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-08  4:17 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-08-08  6:48 ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-08  9:06   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-08-08 12:07     ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-08 12:20       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-08-13 19:26     ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-14  4:35       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2010-08-14  6:51         ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-09  6:49   ` Robert Schwebel
2010-08-22 12:54     ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-08-23  2:51       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-08-18 15:15 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-08-21 10:27   ` Sascha Hauer
2010-08-21 11:35     ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-22  5:07       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-08-22  5:55         ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-22 13:48       ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-08-24 17:59       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-08-22  5:17 ` [PATCH v2] Kconfig: sync with linux kernel v2.6.36-rc1-168-ge36c886 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100814043516.GB24191@game.jcrosoft.org \
    --to=plagnioj@jcrosoft.com \
    --cc=barebox@lists.infradead.org \
    --cc=sam@ravnborg.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox