[Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 9 v4] Config.in.legacy: update description for developers

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Sun Oct 27 08:10:52 UTC 2013


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>  > The existing comments in Config.in.legacy are not entirely in-line with
>  > current practice. The comments implies that BR2_LEGACY should not be set when
>  > the conversion from old-to-new symbol can be done automatically using the
>  > appropriate 'select' statements. However, none of the existing legacy options
>  > does it this way. Moreover, I think it's intentional that the user is notified
>  > of the change, so that the removal of the legacy options in later buildroot
>  > versions no longer poses a problem.
>  > Additionally, the comments now describe how to handle string options.
>
>  > Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>  > Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
>
> (Finally) committed series with some minor fixups to get them to apply,
> thanks!

Thanks Peter! (and also thanks to the other fabulous people present at
the Buildroot Developer Days :-) )



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