linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] kconfig: a new command line tool to set configs

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:55:46 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] kconfig: a new command line tool to set configs

On 2015-05-12 12:31, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is an ugly hack job I made last night and it barely works.  It
> does two things:
> 
> 1)  Sometimes I want to search for a config so I have to load
>     menuconfig, then search for the config entry, then exit.  With
>     this script I simply run:
> 
> 	./scripts/kconfig/kconfig search COMEDI
> 
> 2)  I quite often try to enable something by doing:
> 
> 	echo CONFIG_FOO=y >> .config
> 	make oldconfig
> 	grep CONFIG_FOO .config
> 
>     The grep is to see if the setting worked.  Now I can do:
> 
> 	./scripts/kconfig/kconfig set CONFIG_FOO=y

The second use-case is provided by scripts/config already. It's is a lot
simpler shell script, but it's maybe good enough for such task.

Michal
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