Re: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements

Randy Dunlap
2009-03-02T03:42:01Z

Cheng Renquan wrote:
> This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system,
> mainly,
>
> 1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message;
> 2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them
> be able to be shared with other configuration methods;
> 3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config;
>
> 0001--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch
> 0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch
> 0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch
> 0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch
> 0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch
> 0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch
>
> I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be
> in another patch.
>
> Request for comments, thanks.

Hi,

I still like this idea a lot. However, with "make gconfig" I am
seeing a segfault when I click on "Firmware Drivers" in the main menu.
I only see this with these patches applied.

Other than that, they look good to me.

Here's the gconfig info:
rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 gconfig &
[1] 10722
rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> GEN /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/xx64/Makefile
scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig
make[2]: *** [gconfig] Segmentation fault
make[1]: *** [gconfig] Error 2
make: *** [sub-make] Error

and from the kernel log:

gconf[10868]: segfault at 0000000000000070 rip 00000000004111b6 rsp 00007ffff67cd6f0 error 4

Thanks,
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~Randy