linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 07/31] kconfig: add built-in function support

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Message-ID: <CAFkk2KSf-P9RrLsK=dAgeOSYvznCygxF7X6ZG9DR4WwotfoODA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 21 May 2018 17:10:22 +0200
From:   Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
To:     Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/31] kconfig: add built-in function support

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:23 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
>>> Will the following be equal:
>>>
>>>         $(foo,abc,$(x),$(y))
>>>         $(foo, abc, $(x), $(y))
>>>
>>> make is rather annoying as space is significant, but there seems no good reason
>>> for kconfig to inheritate this.
>>> So unless there are good arguments consider alloing the spaces.
>>> If the current implmentation already supports optional spaces then I just missed
>>> it whie reviewing.
>>>
>>>         Sam
>>
>> +1 from me.
>>
>> I also find the rules for whitespace in Make confusing, and always
>> have to look them up when doing trickier stuff. Maybe they're the
>> result of people not considering whitespace initially, and stuff
>> getting tacked on later. GNU Make adds some alternate syntaxes with
>> quotes.
>>
>> I was going to mention shell, but it looks like you already did. :)
>>
>> If we go with Make-like syntax, maybe we could at least have a variant
>> with fewer whitespace gotchas.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ulf
>
> Maybe it'd be a pain to implement, but something like $(foo $(x) "two
> words" "interpolated $(stuff)") seems pretty nice, with three
> arguments there.

Guess that might interact poorly with $(shell foo "bar baz") though.
Kinda nice to have a syntax that doesn't overlap with shell when
building shell commands.

Still wondering if you could get rid of some of the Make gotchas
without losing other stuff...

Cheers,
Ulf