linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts : config : Added example use when run without argument,extend help

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Message-ID: <20200910225928.GB10714@Gentoo>
Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 04:29:28 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     masahiroy@...nel.org, jeremie.francois@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts : config : Added example use when run without
 argument,extend help

On 15:52 Thu 10 Sep 2020, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Please be more careful. There are many errors here. (see below)

Silly me! thanks Randy :)

~Bhaskar 
>
>On 9/10/20 4:07 AM, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
>> This patch extends the help section by adding an explicit example of use.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  scripts/config | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/scripts/config b/scripts/config
>> index eee5b7f3a092..b75a5aab2453 100755
>> --- a/scripts/config
>> +++ b/scripts/config
>> @@ -45,6 +45,25 @@ make time.
>>  By default, $myname will upper-case the given symbol. Use --keep-case to keep
>>  the case of all following symbols unchanged.
>>  
>> +The concerete example, say, you want to change any particular config ,like
>
>       concrete                                                  config, like
>
>> +GKOV for profiling , you can simply use this command
>
>   GCOV
>
>> +
>> +To enable :
>
>      enable:
>
>> +
>> +#scripts/config --enable GKOV_KERNEL  && grep GKOV .config
>
>                            GCOV_KERNEL          GCOV
>
>> +
>> + and the output will be like this :
>
>                                this:
>
>> +
>> +  CONFIG_GKOV_KERNEL=y
>
>            GCOV
>
>> +
>> +To disable :
>
>      disable:
>
>> +
>> +#scripts/config --disable GKOV_KERNEL  && grep GKOV .config
>
>                             GCOV                 GCOV
>
>> +
>> +  and the output will be like this :
>
>                                 this:
>
>> +
>> +# CONFIG_GKOV_KERNEL is not set
>
>            GCOV
>
>> +
>>  $myname uses 'CONFIG_' as the default symbol prefix. Set the environment
>>  variable CONFIG_ to the prefix to use. Eg.: CONFIG_="FOO_" $myname ...
>>  EOL
>> 
>
>
>-- 
>~Randy
>

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