Re: kconfig/menu.c: Fixup to "kconfig: fix undesirable side effect of adding "visible" menu attribute" ?

[Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>]

Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
>> Sedat, Dirk, All,
>>
>> On 2013-07-31 16:22 +0200, Sedat Dilek spake thusly:
>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net> wrote:
>>> > Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> writes:
>>> >> The Freetz router project has 370 [1] as a revert-patch of [2] to its
>>> >> kconfig-v3.8.
>>> >>
>>> >> commit 7ad1227818f09242cfe9bf1845fd24211f5f99bd
>>> >> "kconfig: fix undesirable side effect of adding "visible" menu attribute"
>>> >>
>>> >> I am not a kconfig-expert, but [3] looks like a fixup/folowup to it.
>>> >>
>>> >> commit/?id=e983b7b17ad1a978e954e6aaa62cf12bfc747883
>>> >> "kconfig/menu.c: fix multiple references to expressions in menu_add_prop()"
>>> >>
>>> >> I contacted Yann in private, but I think this is worth to ask on the
>>> >> linux-kbuild ML.
>>
>> Yes, there was no reason to write such a question in private.
>>
>>> > you are right, [3] fixes a problem that was introduced by [2].
>>> > (I should have noted that in the commit message -- I'm not sure if we
>>> > can fix that afterwards.)
>>
>> No, it's been pushed to a public tree, it's too late.
>> It's even in Linus' tree, so it is really too late!
>>
>>> thanks for the clarification and fixing this up.
>>> I told Yann in my private email to always add a reference to the
>>> "culprit" commit (root-cause).
>>
>> Since I was not the author of that patch, I have no way to know if it is
>> "a fix for a previous commit", or "just a fix", if the original author
>> does not provide this information.
>>
>> Except for the patches I write, I "just" collect (and test/review) the
>> patches to kconfig in my tree, to make it a bit easier for Michal. I
>> just pass the patches' commit logs as-is (or do trivial edits if
>> needed), so what gets in the tree is the responsibility of the author.
>> Hey, Dirk! ;-)
>>
>> But on the principle, I do agree: if the patch fixes a regression
>> introduced by a previous changeset, it should be referenced in the
>> commit log of that new patch, indeed.
>>
>
> Next time we all do it better before!
> If you fail, you'll get no chocolate,
>
> Good news:
> The Freetz router project accepted my kconfig-v3.11-rc3 version-bump
> [1] and got rid of two patches.
>
> Again, thanks to all involved people.
>
> - Sedat -
>
> [1] http://freetz.org/changeset/10915/trunk

Hi Sedat,

I tried to see if I can find some more detail about the Freetz revert
patch [1] -- mainly, because I was wondering if the Freetz people hit
the same problem that [3] fixes.

Do you have detailed information about the origins of [1], maybe a
pointer to some discussion?  All that I could find so far is
http://freetz.org/ticket/1982#comment:7 but I have to confess that I
don't know the Project and it's documentation style very well.

Dirk

[1] http://freetz.org/browser/trunk/tools/make/patches/370-save-hidden-prompts-to-file.kconfig.patch
[2] kconfig: fix undesirable side effect of adding "visible" menu attribute
[3] kconfig/menu.c: fix multiple references to expressions in menu_add_prop()