Re: [PATCH] build system: new configuration interface (nconfig)

2021-04-22 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:26 PM Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote: > Is it mandatory to apply all upstream patches one by one to update > Busybox's kconfig, or is it acceptable to make a "two stage" update in > which I bring all changes in one commit plus customizations in another > one? Two

Re: [PATCH] build system: new configuration interface (nconfig)

2021-04-20 Thread Xabier Oneca -- xOneca
Hi Denys, > "bbox" comments should be marking places where kernel's infrastructure > was tweaked. There weren't many changes. Yeah, I saw them in a couple of places, all around. I've noticed that the main customization is for generating the file autoconf.h with all values for

Re: [PATCH] build system: new configuration interface (nconfig)

2021-04-20 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:15 AM Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:43:06 +0200 Xabier Oneca -- xOneca > wrote: > I'd start with a stable kernel tree from around that commit. > What i do remember is that when i did > f3d1e213fef45ba2df4090e9cd02217d1ef82f00 > there were

Re: [PATCH] build system: new configuration interface (nconfig)

2021-04-18 Thread Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:43:06 +0200 Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote: > Hi Bernhard, > > > The usual way to update out kconfig was to pull the upstream version > > from the kernel, refresh our patch (if we had one) and commit > > both. We usually picked the current stable kernel version and

Re: [PATCH] build system: new configuration interface (nconfig)

2021-04-18 Thread Xabier Oneca -- xOneca
Hi Bernhard, > The usual way to update out kconfig was to pull the upstream version > from the kernel, refresh our patch (if we had one) and commit > both. We usually picked the current stable kernel version and mentioned > that version in the commit message for future reference and updates. > >

Re: [PATCH] build system: new configuration interface (nconfig)

2021-04-18 Thread Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
Hi Xabier, On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:20:22 +0200 Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote: > This patch adds a more modern-looking interface using ncurses. The > implementation does not depend on lxdialog, which is currently distributed > with > Busybox. > > The code is borrowed from the Linux kernel

[PATCH] build system: new configuration interface (nconfig)

2021-04-18 Thread Xabier Oneca -- xOneca
inlined the patch because it is big. Cheers, Xabier Oneca_,,_ From b632597653307f7a7327c6f2af55aff0bef38e5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xabier Oneca Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:24:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] build system: new configuration interface (nconfig) This patch adds a more modern