[Buildroot] [PATCH] support/scripts: add size-stats-compare script

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 16-01-16 13:51, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Arnout,
> 
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:28:23 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
>>  I think you should also add a reference to the script to
>> docs/manual/common-usage.txt. No full documentation is needed, you can just
>> point to the --help option (otherwise it would just get out of sync).
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> 
>>> +# This code relies on the output CSV files of 'make graph-size'. If you
>>> +# are comparing to an older Buildroot release, you can consider backporting
>>> +# that feature. See commits:
>>> +#    99aca138c20e1259ac8c23252c223e150d460482 (instrumentation hook)
>>> +#    598c80be8fc7b5ddfcba6f7715d90757033723ef (size-stats script)
>>> +#    24c75fbb38ffeb5c5a7278cf40f4f7cf867502e0 (make graph-size)
>>
>>  I think this documentation should be part of the argparse description.
> 
> I tend to disagree here, and instead who advocate to not have such
> documentation at all. Nowhere do we document which commits should be
> backported to bring this or that feature to an older Buildroot release,
> and I don't think we should start doing this.

 OK, I actually meant that the documentation should be part of the description,
I tend to agree that it's not necessary to tell people what to backport.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> 


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