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Message-ID: <48D27734.3040600@cateee.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:43:48 +0200
From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@...eee.net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
CC: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: diet-kconfig: a script to trim unneeded kconfigs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Hi Takashi,
>
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:55:26 +0200
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
>> The script is VERY hackish. I should have begun with perl or whatever
>> better script language, but I chose bash and co. So, don't expect
>> much code quality. I'm no script guy after all :)
>
> Using just a shellscript and binutils seems to be better than using other
> tools, since it allows the usage on minimal configured systems where the user
> might not have perl or other scripting languages.
But very slow, complex and not enough powerful:
The tools should have extensive knowledge about Kconfig,
and the CONFIG_ dependencies; it should handle a lot of
structures (text/binary; line/record oriented; etc.), which
it is not easy in shell (awk, od, sed with extended regexp are
not core utilities).
So my suggestion is: do it in a high level language, to find and
stabilize the design, and then integrate it in kconfig later (using
C).
ciao
cate
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