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

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:57:20 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] kconfig: a new command line tool to set configs

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 02:55:46PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> 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.

The scripts/config file doesn't check that the config is valid.  It's
the same as doing "echo CONFIG_FOO=y >> .config" which I was trying to
fix.

regards,
dan carpenter