linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] kconfig: Make localmodconfig handle environment variables

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Message-ID: <4CEE90C9.8060607@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:37:29 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] kconfig: Make localmodconfig handle environment
 variables

On 25.11.2010 17:21, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
>> What information does localmodconfig need? A list of config options and
>> their computed dependencies and a flag for each option if it has prompt,
>> anything else? So a scripts/kconfig/conf --dump-kconfig that would
>> produce such flat list should suffice, without the complexity of having
>> to build a perl binding first (and would be usable from bash/awk/python
>> scripts as well). What do you think?
>>
> Just as a FYI, the output of zconfdump() does not respect the kconfig
> syntax. I've got some patches to fix that, but I've not been able to
> touch them since a few weeks now.

I'm not saying zconfdump() has to be used or that it has to follow the
kconfig syntax (*), just that a pipe interface between the C kconfig and
a Perl script might be easier to implement and use :-).

(*) Although using a subset of the kconfig syntax would be a good idea
definitely.

Michal
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