linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [ANNOUNCE] kconfig: Kconfiglib: a flexible Python Kconfig parser

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Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:58:56 +0100
From:	Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@...il.com>
To:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, mmarek@...e.cz, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, andrea.gelmini@...ma.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ANNOUNCE] kconfig: Kconfiglib: a flexible Python
 Kconfig parser

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:27:52AM +0100, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is the initial release of Kconfiglib: a Python library for
> scripting, debugging, and extracting information from Kconfig-based
> configuration systems.  It can be used to programmatically generate a
> .config when the '*conf' tools are too inflexible, to quickly find out
> interesting information about a Kconfig configuration such as dependency
> relations between symbols and where undefined symbols are referenced,
> and in applications that need to parse and extract information from
> Kconfig files.
> 
> For a much longer introduction including multiple examples, see
> arch/kconfig/kconfiglib.py.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@...il.com>
> ---
> Convenience links:
> 
> Documentation, generated from kconfiglib.py with pydoc -w:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10406197/kconfiglib.html
> 
> Examples as separate files:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10406197/kconfiglib-examples.tar.gz
> 
> 
> The patch should be preferably be applied to a recent kernel, i.e. Linus's
> (2.6.38-rc3 at the time of writing).  Due to recent Kconfig changes, the
> kconfigtest.py test suite - which compares output character-for-character -
> will indicate failure on older (a few months old) kernels versions even though
> the outputs are functionally equivalent.
> 
> [...]

Seems linux-kbuild and linux-doc won't accept the patch (too large?), so
here's a link to the message on linux-kernel:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/1/439

/Ulf Magnusson
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