From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Makefile: add help for linux-update-defconfig target
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 23:34:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150406233417.68ba7a8d@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55229762.4040302@mind.be>
Arnout,
On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:25:38 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> Here are the reasons:
>
> - update-defconfig doesn't exist for all kconfig packages
>
> - update-defconfig is preferred if it exists (for Linux I certainly see no
> reason to ever use update-config)
>
> - documenting foo-update-defconfig would perhaps be better, but that's part of a
> bigger change that would completely remove all the specifics. When I did the
> 'make help' patches I started on that, but it turns out to be a bit more work so
> I dropped it in the end.
Hm, well, I'm still not highly convinced on how we handle this
per-package target help text. But anyway, applied, as it isn't that
worse than what we have today.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-06 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-02 19:34 [Buildroot] [PATCH] Makefile: add help for linux-update-defconfig target Yegor Yefremov
2015-04-06 13:16 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-04-06 13:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-04-06 14:25 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-04-06 21:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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