linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig: '+config' valid syntax?

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Message-ID: <1435921249.2423.70.camel@tiscali.nl>
Date:	Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:00:49 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	Andreas Ruprecht <andreas.ruprecht@....de>,
	Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>,
	rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	hengelein Stefan <stefan.hengelein@....de>,
	linux@...inikbrodowski.net
Subject: Re: Kconfig: '+config' valid syntax?

On vr, 2015-07-03 at 12:46 +0200, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> Except for scattered accidents like in the original message, which are
> hopefully pretty rare and easy to fix,

Correct.

>  the only documented thing that depends
> on that lexer sloppiness is the ---help--- "token".
> 
> I'd just add "---help---" as another T_HELP alias

Which implies dropping the empty rule for "---", right?

>  (or get rid of it altogether,
> but that's probably more work than it's worth).

    $git grep -e "---help---" -- "*Kconfig*" | wc -l
    2590

Doable. Might not make you friends.

>  Tightening things up should be safe after that.

Did you already try adding ---help--- (and something similar to Andreas'
check for the mistake we're discussing here)?


Paul Bolle
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