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

[Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com>]

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

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.

Kind regards,
-- 
Franco Martelli