Re: [PATCH v2] Kconfig: Added compare capabilities for mconf Ver. 2

[Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com>]

On 16/06/25 at 15:44, Franco Martelli wrote:
> On 16/06/25 at 15:04, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Dear Linux hacker,
>>>
>>> I've written a patch that allows to compare the tristate value of two
>>> .config files inline, symbol by symbol, in mconf (make menuconfig) only.
>>
>>
>> I do not understand why this needs to be implemented in
>> menuconfig.
>> scripts/diffconfig is already available.

> When a new stable release of a distribution is available, in the Linux
> kernel many things has changed, this patch comes in help in this
> situations, it allows to easily compare the customized .config file
> built for the previous version of the distribution, with the one
> provided by the new software distribution, used as reference.
> Generally it can be helpful when the differences between .config files
> are huge, because you can navigate across them in the menu window.

>>
>> I think the comparison mode is rather distracting.
>>

A solution to improve readability of the comparison mode could
be to skip symbols without differences, so leaving those menu
entries untouched. This will shrink the amounts of characters
displayed significantly.

I can send a version 3 of the patch changed accordingly, if
you don't reply to this email I will assume yes, but if you
are definitely against to this patch, please let me to know.

Kind regards,
-- 
Franco Martelli