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Re: [PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method

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From Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
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Subject Re: [PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method
Date Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:50:01 +0200
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Hi,

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:
> On 04/21/16 13:07, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> With a growing amount of Kernel configuration, it's
>> getting ever more difficult to find anything on
>> menuconfig. Because of that, implement mergesort for
>> kconfig to make it a little easier for anybody
>> building kernels.
>
> Hi,
>
> Please explain the problem and the solution better.  I don't
> get it.

it's unclear to me what you don't understand from description above. Try
to find and enable some random driver on menuconfig. Here's a
suggestion:

"Maxim Semiconductor MAX77843 PMIC Support"

In any case, the idea is the following:

menuconfig has too many options, they are unsorted -> sort them

-- 
balbi

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[PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method Felipe Balbi <balbif@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 22:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-04-22 01:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> - 2016-04-22 09:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] scripts: kconfig: implement a sort method Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-04-22 19:10 +0200

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