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[195.23.151.163]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-48e8f442129sm42770485e9.28.2026.05.13.06.59.35 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 13 May 2026 06:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julian Braha Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 14:59:35 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird From: Julian Braha Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/2] add kconfirm To: Demi Marie Obenour , nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org Cc: jani.nikula@linux.intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gary@garyguo.net, ljs@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, masahiroy@kernel.org, ojeda@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, qingfang.deng@linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org References: <20260509203808.1142311-1-julianbraha@gmail.com> <8fe7c7c8-00f7-4a72-a984-e929f71bec22@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <8fe7c7c8-00f7-4a72-a984-e929f71bec22@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/11/26 05:24, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > This adds too many dependencies. > > Some suggestions: > > - Use system libcurl instead of ureq. > - Use libc getopt_long instead of clap. > - Use manual FFI bindings instead of third-party crates. > - Use the C Kconfig parser instead of a third-party library. Hi Demi, thanks for going in-depth on the alternatives. Unfortunately, given the amount of analysis performed on the parse tree, even just replacing the parser amounts to a wholesale rewrite of the tool. I will look into the others though, just to reduce the amount of trust that kconfirm users need to invest in the Rust ecosystem. - Julian Braha