Add support for qmk_configurator style aliases (#11954)

* Add support for qmk_configurator style aliases

* add the keyboard aliases to the api data

* add support for a keyboard metadata file

* make flake8 happy

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/qmk/cli/generate/layouts.py b/lib/python/qmk/cli/generate/layouts.py
index a738edfe6..7b4394291 100755
--- a/lib/python/qmk/cli/generate/layouts.py
+++ b/lib/python/qmk/cli/generate/layouts.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from milc import cli
 from qmk.constants import COL_LETTERS, ROW_LETTERS
 from qmk.decorators import automagic_keyboard, automagic_keymap
 from qmk.info import info_json
+from qmk.keyboard import keyboard_folder
 from qmk.path import is_keyboard, normpath
 
 usb_properties = {
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ usb_properties = {
 
 @cli.argument('-o', '--output', arg_only=True, type=normpath, help='File to write to')
 @cli.argument('-q', '--quiet', arg_only=True, action='store_true', help="Quiet mode, only output error messages")
-@cli.argument('-kb', '--keyboard', help='Keyboard to generate config.h for.')
+@cli.argument('-kb', '--keyboard', type=keyboard_folder, help='Keyboard to generate config.h for.')
 @cli.subcommand('Used by the make system to generate layouts.h from info.json', hidden=True)
 @automagic_keyboard
 @automagic_keymap