[Buildroot] [PATCH 000/102] Standardize/beautify genimage .cfg files for all boards

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 08/11/2021 17:01, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> Hi Yann, All,
> 
>> Il giorno 8 nov 2021, alle ore 16:08, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> ha scritto:
>>
>> Guilio, All,
>>
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>>   - the genimage format is not well defined, and there is no linter, so
>>     the existing files *will* diverge again, and we won't notice that
>>     new files won't be compliant.
>>
>> We know the files will diverge again, because that already hapenned with
>> our python scripts, even though we did have a check running flake8. So,
>> for genimage files without a linter? No way they can't and won't...
> 
> Yea I thought about this. I don’t know how much difficult it could be writing one.

  I think it should be easy enough to extend the check-package script to check 
for at least some of the issues (e.g. tabs used for indentation).


  Regards,
  Arnout

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