From: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
To: masahiroy@kernel.org
Cc: jeremie.francois@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scripts : config : Added example use when run without argument,extend help
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:37:13 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200910110713.12782-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com> (raw)
This patch extends the help section by adding an explicit example of use.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.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
+GKOV for profiling , you can simply use this command
+
+To enable :
+
+#scripts/config --enable GKOV_KERNEL && grep GKOV .config
+
+ and the output will be like this :
+
+ CONFIG_GKOV_KERNEL=y
+
+To disable :
+
+#scripts/config --disable GKOV_KERNEL && grep GKOV .config
+
+ and the output will be like this :
+
+# CONFIG_GKOV_KERNEL is not set
+
$myname uses 'CONFIG_' as the default symbol prefix. Set the environment
variable CONFIG_ to the prefix to use. Eg.: CONFIG_="FOO_" $myname ...
EOL
--
2.26.2
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2020-09-10 11:07 Bhaskar Chowdhury [this message]
2020-09-10 22:52 ` [PATCH] scripts : config : Added example use when run without argument,extend help Randy Dunlap
2020-09-10 22:59 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
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