linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: allow long lines in config file

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Message-ID: <50001D87.1020708@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:07:19 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: allow long lines in config file

On 11.7.2012 01:47, cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> From: Cody Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> For some config options (CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE, for example), the length
> of a config file line can exceed the 1024 byte buffer.
> 
> Switch from fgets to getline to fix.

getline() is not a portable function and kconfig is an essential part of
kernel build. Could you please change it to a loop over fgets that
terminates when the last character is '\n'?

Thanks,
Michal
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