[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] kconfig: convert Kconfig helper script into a shell script

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon Aug 18 18:20:55 CEST 2014


On 08/16/2014 10:56 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Commit 51148790 added scripts/multiconfig.py written in Python 2
> to adjust Kconfig for U-Boot.
>
> It has been hard for Python 3 users because Python 2 and Python 3
> are not compatible with each other.
>
> We are not happy about adding a new host tool dependency
> (in this case, Python version dependency) for the core build process.
> After some discussion, we decided to use only basic tools.
>
> The script may get a bit unreadable by shell scripting, but we believe
> it is worthwhile.
>
> In addition, this commit revives "<board>_config" target that is
> equivalent to "<board>_defconfig" for backwards compatibility.
> It is annoying to adjust various projects which use U-Boot.

Personally, I think this change isn't justified; I see no reason to 
replace the perfectly working existing script. Still, if that's what's 
desired...


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