Attention is currently required from: Nico Huber, Martin Roth, Angel Pons, Julius Werner, Michael Niewöhner. Felix Singer has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/56410 )
Change subject: [RFC] kconfig_lint: Drop overly restrictive rules about choice configs ......................................................................
Patch Set 5: Code-Review+1
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https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/56410/comment/49427a99_0a388a97 PS4, Line 19: On top, the linter treats every occurence of a `config` entry as a : symbol declaration, even when it's just setting a default or adding : selects.
I actually supported the idea of using kconfiglib, which can do what this linter does and more, but that idea was shot down.
Well, push an RFC and let's discuss it. I'd be happy to take a look and would probably even support it. (Even though, I know some people hating python... I don't.)
I just read through the discussion from the mailing list. This is not really motivating to work on a RFC. People dislike (for whatever reason) Python in general. I have the feeling the discussion drifted into a philosophical direction at some point. Even if the common opinion is critical, that doesn't mean that the idea was shot down. But I might be too optimistic :)
I joined the coreboot project just a few years ago, so I don't know which issues the project had with Python. It seems, one major issue was the transition from Python 2 to 3. However, from my (very naive) point of view, we should just evaluate it and see if it works for us. Theoretical discussions often lead to false assumptions, at least in my experience.