Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755869AbZCCEJu (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:09:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751215AbZCCEJl (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:09:41 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:31837 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751803AbZCCEJj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:09:39 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dfKBSlxNILbz2Z9u/pjrSgiyNGPk0m+Lwk3si6tO+Njv17Vq5NaVHP0vzFfpfNIZs9 tMPAYjo11AGbsPPfnW7nBITZRAHxRKq71bAJ5m2YOCrAkiIXYrpGpsBtLqkG1FYD8PW8 4WX8soKSuQX8vDNqsSXPlUYLMTg9Xe7n3ttn4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <49AB55B9.3050301@oracle.com> References: <1235401804-8136-1-git-send-email-crquan@gmail.com> <49AB55B9.3050301@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:09:35 +0800 Message-ID: <91b13c310903022009l363497bbi380356c19caa53b3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] [KBUILD] configuration system improvements From: Cheng Renquan To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Roman Zippel , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2483 Lines: 71 On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Cheng Renquan wrote: >> This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system, >> mainly, >> >> 1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message; >> 2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them >>    be able to be shared with other configuration methods; >> 3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config; >> >>   0001--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch >>   0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch >>   0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch >>   0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch >>   0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch >>   0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch >> >> I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be >> in another patch. >> >> Request for comments, thanks. > > Hi, > > I still like this idea a lot.  However, with "make gconfig" I am > seeing a segfault when I click on "Firmware Drivers" in the main menu. > I only see this with these patches applied. > > Other than that, they look good to me. > > > Here's the gconfig info: > rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 gconfig & > [1] 10722 > rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5>   GEN     /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/xx64/Makefile > scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig > make[2]: *** [gconfig] Segmentation fault > make[1]: *** [gconfig] Error 2 > make: *** [sub-make] Error > > > and from the kernel log: > > gconf[10868]: segfault at 0000000000000070 rip 00000000004111b6 rsp 00007ffff67cd6f0 error 4 Could you tell what distribution are you using? The versions of your glibc, gtk+2.0, and glibc? If you can correctly build other gtk+ programs? I have developed these patches on default Fedora 10 i686, it runs well, and today I have tested it under a latest Gentoo x86_64 desktop, all seems run well here. thanks, > > > Thanks, > -- > ~Randy > -- Cheng Renquan (程任全), from Shenzhen, China Dick Cavett - "If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/