[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/15] Kconfig for U-Boot

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Simon,



On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:43:35 +0100
Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> Also some thoughts for the future:
> 
> 1. The 'menuconfig' option makes it obvious that we are dealing with
> U-Boot / SPL / TPL. Can we do the same for 'xconfig'?


Sorry, I could not understand what you mean.

In my rough understanding, 'menuconfig' and 'xconfig' are equivalent
except the appearance of GUI.

What is expactly supported in 'menuconfig' and missing in 'xconfig'?




> 2. If I do 'make tpl/menuconfig' and there is no TPL defined, I wonder
> if it should give an error rather than allowing you to edit it?

I am not sure if it should.
Anyway I can do this, if necessary, in a follow-up patch.



> 3. With all of this code applied we could use some documentation about
> the defconfig file format and how it interacts with the board config
> files. This could come from your commit messages perhaps.

Yes. I can do this after the series is applied.
I agree this should be documented.


> BTW Python doc strings usually use " instead of ' and :
> 
> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#documentation-strings
> 

Uh, thanks. Fixed.


Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada