[PATCH v2] Explicltly group ash options and hush options

Kang-Che Sung explorer09 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 03:32:12 UTC 2017


(The patch diff is in mail attachment because I'm not sure if Gmail
likes tab characters in mail messages.)

This would makes all ash options indented inside "ash" in menuconfig.
It appears that menuconfig has a limit at tracking multiple dependency
lines like this (it looks like a "diamond problem" but I'm not sure if
it is):

               ---ASH <----------
              /                  \       ASH_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
    !NOMMU <-*----SH_IS_ASH <----[OR] <--ASH_INTERNAL_GLOB
              \                  /       ASH_RANDOM_SUPPORT
               ---BASH_IS_ASH <--        [...]

The kconfig-language document [1] states that:

> If a menu entry somehow depends on the previous entry, it can be
> made a submenu of it. First, the previous (parent) symbol must be
> part of the dependency list and then one of these two conditions
> must be true:
> - the child entry must become invisible, if the parent is set to 'n'

    [BusyBox ash used to satisfy this, but no longer does]

> - the child entry must only be visible, if the parent is visible

    [BusyBox ash configs actually satisfy this, but because of
     "diamond" above this might not be easily detected]

So I found out a direct workaround: by making ash options explicitly
depend on !NOMMU, we can tell menuconfig that rule 2 above is satisfied
without any more tracking.

               ---------------------
              /                     \
    !NOMMU <-*-----ASH <--------     \
              \                 \     \        ASH_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
               *---SH_IS_ASH <---[OR]-[AND] <--ASH_INTERNAL_GLOB
                \                /             ASH_RANDOM_SUPPORT
                 --BASH_IS_ASH <-              [...]

So all ash options would now be indented under "ash".

[1] "Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt" in Linux kernel source

Signed-off-by: Kang-Che Sung <explorer09 at gmail.com>
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