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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method
To: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>, Felipe Balbi <balbif@gmail.com>,
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:03:02 -0700
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On 04/22/16 00:45, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:
>> On 04/21/16 13:07, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>> With a growing amount of Kernel configuration, it's
>>> getting ever more difficult to find anything on
>>> menuconfig. Because of that, implement mergesort for
>>> kconfig to make it a little easier for anybody
>>> building kernels.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please explain the problem and the solution better.  I don't
>> get it.
> 
> it's unclear to me what you don't understand from description above. Try
> to find and enable some random driver on menuconfig. Here's a
> suggestion:
> 
> "Maxim Semiconductor MAX77843 PMIC Support"
> 

yeah, I had no problem with that.  / (Search) works very well, sorted
or not.

Maybe I'm not in your target market.


> In any case, the idea is the following:
> 
> menuconfig has too many options, they are unsorted -> sort them
> 


The addition of < Sort > to the bottom menu items is displayed (partially)
in an 80-column-wide terminal window: (oh, I see, it wraps, still not good)

  ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤  
  │        <Select>    < Exit >    < Help >    < Save >    < Load >    < Sort  
   >────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  
    


I still think that you have an inadequate problem statement to justify
the patch.  Nothing against the patch itself.

thanks,
-- 
~Randy