[PATCH 00/19] commands rework patch series

[Sascha Hauer]

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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