Re: [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: Show menuconfigs as menus in the .config file

[Ariel Marcovitch <arielmarcovitch@gmail.com>]

Hello!

On 18/01/2022 20:20, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 7:01 PM Ariel Marcovitch
> <arielmarcovitch@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Until now, menuconfigs were considered configs because they had non-zero
>> sym attribute. This meant that instead of having the nice menu comment
>> block in the .config output file, they were merely shown as single
>> configs.
>>
>> For example:
>> ```Kconfig
>> menu "Foo"
>> endmenu
>>
>> menuconfig BAR
>>          bool "Bar"
>>
>> config OTHER
>>          bool "Other"
>>          depends on BAR
>> ```
>>
>> Will be shown as:
>> ```.config
>>   #
>>   # Foo
>>   #
>>   # end of Foo
>
> I am OK with this patch.
>
> Just a nit.
>
> As far as I tested your sample code (without applying this patch),
> I did not see the line "# end of Foo".
>
> The line "# end of ..." is printed when the last child gets back to
> its parent, but the "Foo" menu has no child menu here.
>
> This is out of scope of this patch, but can you update the
> commit log so it matches the current behavior?

I saw you added a patch to change that, so now the code sample here is 
less of a lie :)

I learned my message of never adding code samples to commit messages 
without testing these as well :)

So is it ready now to be applied on top of your change?

> (or add one config into the "Foo" menu)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>   CONFIG_BAR=y
>>   CONFIG_OTHER=y
>> ```
>>
>> Instead of using the sym attribute to decide whether or not to print the
>> menu block comment, check menu->prompt->type explicitly (after checking
>> that menu_is_visible(menu) which means menu->prompt is not none). The
>> only prompt types we actually show as menus are P_MENU and P_COMMENT. At
>> the end of the menu we need to show the end of block only for P_MENU
>> (although P_COMMENT prompts will not get to this flow because they don't
>> have children).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ariel Marcovitch <arielmarcovitch@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>>   1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
>> index 42bc56ee238c..9f2c22f46ee0 100644
>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
>> @@ -874,16 +874,21 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
>>          menu = rootmenu.list;
>>          while (menu) {
>>                  sym = menu->sym;
>> -               if (!sym) {
>> -                       if (!menu_is_visible(menu))
>> -                               goto next;
>> -                       str = menu_get_prompt(menu);
>> -                       fprintf(out, "\n"
>> -                                    "#\n"
>> -                                    "# %s\n"
>> -                                    "#\n", str);
>> -                       need_newline = false;
>> -               } else if (!(sym->flags & SYMBOL_CHOICE) &&
>> +
>> +               if (menu_is_visible(menu)) {
>> +                       enum prop_type type = menu->prompt->type;
>> +
>> +                       if (type == P_MENU || type == P_COMMENT) {
>> +                               str = menu_get_prompt(menu);
>> +                               fprintf(out, "\n"
>> +                                       "#\n"
>> +                                       "# %s\n"
>> +                                       "#\n", str);
>> +                               need_newline = false;
>> +                       }
>> +               }
>> +
>> +               if (sym && !(sym->flags & SYMBOL_CHOICE) &&
>>                             !(sym->flags & SYMBOL_WRITTEN)) {
>>                          sym_calc_value(sym);
>>                          if (!(sym->flags & SYMBOL_WRITE))
>> @@ -904,7 +909,8 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
>>                  if (menu->next)
>>                          menu = menu->next;
>>                  else while ((menu = menu->parent)) {
>> -                       if (!menu->sym && menu_is_visible(menu) &&
>> +                       if (menu_is_visible(menu) &&
>> +                           menu->prompt->type == P_MENU &&
>>                              menu != &rootmenu) {
>>                                  str = menu_get_prompt(menu);
>>                                  fprintf(out, "# end of %s\n", str);
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>