From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 9 v4] Config.in.legacy: update description for users
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 22:55:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130902225514.7d9323cc@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac4d080274a06689e8d4.1378152471@argentina>
Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:07:51 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> if BR2_LEGACY
> comment "Your old configuration uses legacy options that no "
> -comment "longer exist in buildroot. "
> -comment "Please look at the options which have been selected "
> -comment "and read their help text. "
> -comment "As long as these options stay selected, the build "
> +comment "longer exist in buildroot, as indicated in the menu "
> +comment "below. As long as these options stay selected, or in"
> +comment "case of string options are non-empty, the build "
> comment "will fail. "
> +comment "* "
> +comment "Where possible, an automatic conversion from old to "
> +comment "new symbols has been performed. Before making any "
> +comment "change in this legacy menu, make sure to exit the "
> +comment "configuration editor a first time and save the "
> +comment "configuration. Otherwise, the automatic conversion "
> +comment "of symbols will be lost. "
This really seems ugly for users, no? I know it's been discussed, but
can you summarize why this should be done by our users?
Thanks!
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-02 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-02 20:07 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 9 v4] linux/uboot: add support for custom Mercurial repositories Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 9 v4] Config.in.legacy: update description for developers Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:54 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-03 12:13 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-03 16:46 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-27 7:24 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-27 8:10 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 9 v4] Config.in.legacy: update description for users Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:55 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-09-03 6:16 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-09-03 7:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-03 11:42 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-03 11:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-03 15:06 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-09-03 16:50 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-09-04 8:33 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-04 16:08 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-09-04 19:07 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3 of 9 v4] Config.in.legacy: add separator to " Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4 of 9 v4] Remove redundant dollar signs in Config.in files Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5 of 9 v4] linux: add support for custom Mercurial repository Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 6 of 9 v4] u-boot: " Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 7 of 9 v4] linux/uboot: line-up repository-related configuration options Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 8 of 9 v4] defconfigs: update after rename of custom git repo/version options Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 20:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 9 of 9 v4] linux: mention 3.x.y kernels in 'custom version' help Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-02 21:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-19 19:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 9 v4] linux/uboot: add support for custom Mercurial repositories Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-20 9:22 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-25 20:12 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
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