linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/27] kconfig: remove all reduce/shift conflicts, refactor lexer, fix various issues

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Date:   Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:59:06 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/27] kconfig: remove all reduce/shift conflicts,
 refactor lexer, fix various issues

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 8:04 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
>
> When I tryed to change something, I was often hit by annoying
> shift/reduce conflicts in the parser.
>
> The lexer and parser are too cluttered.
>
> So, I decided to clean-up now.
>
>   - Fix all shift/reduce conflicts in the parser
>
>   - Rewrite the lexer. The linear keyword search was removed.
>     The number of states descreased from 6 to 4.
>
>   - Fix various subtle issues
>
>
>
> Masahiro Yamada (27):
>   kconfig: fix file name and line number of warn_ignored_character()
>   kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation
>   kconfig: require T_EOL to reduce visible statement
>   kconfig: remove unneeded pattern matching to whitespaces
>   kconfig: refactor pattern matching in STRING state
>   kconfig: fix ambiguous grammar in terms of new lines
>   kconfig: clean up EOF handling in the lexer
>   kconfig: warn no new line at end of file
>   kconfig: remove grammatically ambiguous "unexpected option" diagnostic
>   kconfig: remove grammatically ambiguous option_error
>   kconfig: remove redundant if_block rule
>   kconfig: remove redundant menu_block rule
>   kconfig: loosen the order of "visible" and "depends on" in menu entry
>   kconfig: rename depends_list to comment_option_list
>   kconfig: remove redundant token defines
>   kconfig: use distinct tokens for type and default properties
>   kconfig: refactor scanning and parsing "option" properties
>   kconfig: use specific tokens instead of T_ASSIGN for assignments
>   kconfig: use T_WORD instead of T_VARIABLE for variables
>   microblaze: surround string default in Kconfig with double quotes
>   treewide: surround file paths in Kconfig files with double quotes
>   kconfig: ban the use of '.' and '/' in unquoted words
>   kconfig: refactor end token rules
>   kconfig: stop associating kconf_id with yylval
>   kconfig: switch to ASSIGN_VAL state in the second lexer
>   kconfig: update current_pos in the second lexer
>   kconfig: remove keyword lookup table entirely


Series, applied to kbuild/kconfig.


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada