linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 05/21] kconfig: remove string expansion in file

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Date:   Sun, 1 Apr 2018 04:52:02 +0200
From:   Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/21] kconfig: remove string expansion in file_lookup()

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
> There are two callers of file_lookup().
>
> [1] zconf_initscan()
>     This is used to open the first Kconfig.  However, it cannot
>     contain environments in the file path because zconf_fopen() is
>     called before file_lookup().  By swapping the call order,
>     KBUILD_KCONFIG would be able to contain environments, but I do
>     not see practical benefits to support it.
>
> [2] zconf_nextfile()
>     This is used to open the next file from 'source' statement like
>         source "arch/$SRCARCH/Kconfig"
>     but this has already been expanded in the lexer phase.
>
> So, file_lookup() does not need to expand the given path.
>
> By the way, file_lookup() was already buggy; it expanded a given path,
> but it used the path before expansion for look-up:
>         if (!strcmp(name, file->name)) {
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>

s/environments/environment variables/

Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>