[Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 7] Introduction of kconfig-package infrastructure

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Thomas,

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:58:48 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> > Weird, you don't have the summary of patches in the cover letter. Don't
> > you use 'git --cover format-patch' to generate the cover letter?
> 
> Is this a trick question? ;-)

Might be :-)

> I'm using mercurial to send out patches, unfortunately it does not
> have a ready-made option to get this summary of patches. I have wanted
> to do that in the past too, so I'll write a little script to mimic the
> output of git here.

You know, git is not *that* dangerous!

> >  * Regarding the kconfig-package infra stuff, I'm mostly fine with it,
> >    except for one detail: it pretends to be a package infrastructure,
> >    but it is not. It is only a kind of "library" / "helper" to use next
> >    to a real package infrastructure. And I think this is pretty
> >    confusing considering the name that was chosen, and the way it works.
> >
> >    My proposal would therefore be to turn it into a real package
> >    infrastructure by simply making it inherit from generic-package,
> >    much like autotools-package, cmake-package and al. All kconfig-based
> >    packages are otherwise generic-package. I don't see the logic behind
> >    using Kconfig for an autotools-based or cmake-based package, since
> >    autotools and cmake are precisely here to provide configuration
> >    capabilities that overlap with what kconfig provides. And as of
> >    today, we have linux, barebox, uclibc and busybox, and all of these
> >    use the generic-package infra.
> 
> I never thought of it this way, but what you say makes perfect sense to me.
> 
> >
> >    I think it's really a minor change in the patches, and with this
> >    change, I'm willing to merge this package infra.
> 
> Great! I'm on it, hope to send out the adapted series soon...

Cool!

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com