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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] commands rework patch series
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:46:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140513134639.GR5858@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399969739-10355-1-git-send-email-holgerschurig@gmail.com>

Hi Holger,

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:28:40AM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is my current patch series that should improve barebox'
> documentation about it's commands.
> 
> * when I started barebox and typed "help", the list of commands
>   was scrolling up quickly. Almost always did I had to use the
>   mouse and scroll my x-terminal backwards to see what I
>   actually wanted to see. So I reduced the output of the "help"
>   command to just spit out the command names, however grouped
>   by functions. This is now much smaller and fits in one
>   screen. The old list is available with "help -l".
> * Usage (synopsis) documention (e.g. "ls [-lCR]") was only in
>   the CONFIG_LONGHELP, but it's often usable if one forget the
>   exact command option letter. It's now part of the help even
>   without CONFIG_LONGHELP.
> * I reworked the long help texts to make them better understandable
>   (hopefully), and also tried to recuce their size if possible.
> * when I was new to barebox, I was wandering if I need some
>   of the commands in "make xconfig". I didn't have further
>   information, because almost no command had a help text.
>   This has now changed, the help texts in Kconfig are almost the
>   same as the help texts of "help FOOBAR" (with CONFIG_LONGHELP) on.
> * now that "help" has the commands grouped nicely, it was time
>   to group them in "make xconfig", too
> * many Kconfig entries turned on commands, but they were located
>   at various places (a.g. common, net, arch-depended). Moved them
>   all into commands/Kconfig
> * some CONFIG_CMD_foobar things didn't turn on commands. I renamed
>   them (and their occurences in the _defconfig)s.

This series looks really great! I haven't looked at the details, but it
has some very nice aspects, like the command grouping and the same
grouping into Kconfig submenus.

Sascha

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-13 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-13  8:28 Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 01/19] commands: group 'help' output Holger Schurig
2014-05-13 13:48   ` Sascha Hauer
2014-05-13 14:07     ` Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 02/19] commands: harmonize in-barebox documentation Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 03/19] commands: harmonize in-barebox docs with Kconfig docs Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 04/19] commands: CMD_MEMORY -> COMPILE_MEMORY Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 05/19] commands: CMD_DIGEST -> COMPILE_DIGEST Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 06/19] commands: move CMD_ARM_CPUINFO to commands/Kconfig Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 07/19] commands: move CMD_ARM_MMUINFO " Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 08/19] commands: move CMD_MIPS_CPUINFO " Holger Schurig
2014-05-13 11:26   ` Antony Pavlov
2014-05-13 11:28     ` Holger Schurig
2014-05-13 12:23       ` Antony Pavlov
2014-05-13 12:43         ` Holger Schurig
2014-05-13 13:09           ` Juergen Borleis
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 09/19] commands: move CMD_BOOT_ORDER " Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 10/19] commands: move CMD_AT91_BOOT_TEST " Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 11/19] commands: move CMD_AT91MUX " Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 12/19] commands: move CMD_AT91MIX " Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 13/19] commands: HUSH_GETOPT -> CMD_GETOPT Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 14/19] commands: let all network commands depend on NET Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 15/19] commands: introduce CMD_HOST Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 16/19] commands: NET_PING -> CMD_PING Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 17/19] commands: NET_DHCP -> CMD_DHCP Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 18/19] commands: move CMD_IFUP to commands/Kconfig Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:28 ` [PATCH 19/19] commands: move CONFIG_LONGHELP " Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:30 ` [PATCH 00/19] commands rework patch series Holger Schurig
2014-05-13  8:41   ` Sascha Hauer
2014-05-13  9:00   ` Holger Schurig
2014-05-13 13:46 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2014-05-14  7:02 ` Sascha Hauer
2014-05-14 13:55   ` Antony Pavlov
2014-05-15  8:09     ` Holger Schurig
2014-05-15 11:52       ` Sascha Hauer

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