add support for hidden packages that get selected/built but do not show up in menuconfig

SVN-Revision: 27344

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pl b/scripts/metadata.pl
index 246520bf78..3acdb16a82 100755
--- a/scripts/metadata.pl
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pl
@@ -525,10 +525,12 @@ sub print_package_config_category($) {
 			if ($c > 0) {
 				$title .= ("." x $c). " ". $pkg->{title};
 			}
+			$title = "\"$title\"";
 			print "\t";
 			$pkg->{menu} and print "menu";
 			print "config PACKAGE_".$pkg->{name}."\n";
-			print "\t\t".($pkg->{tristate} ? 'tristate' : 'bool')." \"$title\"\n";
+			$pkg->{hidden} and $title = "";
+			print "\t\t".($pkg->{tristate} ? 'tristate' : 'bool')." $title\n";
 			print "\t\tdefault y if DEFAULT_".$pkg->{name}."\n";
 			foreach my $default (split /\s*,\s*/, $pkg->{default}) {
 				print "\t\tdefault $default\n";
diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pm b/scripts/metadata.pm
index 6d544c8833..5efef46924 100644
--- a/scripts/metadata.pm
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pm
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ sub parse_package_metadata($) {
 		};
 		/^Menu-Depends: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{mdepends} = [ split /\s+/, $1 ];
 		/^Depends: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{depends} = [ split /\s+/, $1 ];
+		/^Hidden: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{hidden} = 1;
 		/^Build-Variant: \s*([\w\-]+)\s*/ and $pkg->{variant} = $1;
 		/^Build-Only: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{buildonly} = 1;
 		/^Build-Depends: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{builddepends} = [ split /\s+/, $1 ];