[PATCH v3 0/3] Print reverse dependencies in groups

Eugeniu Rosca
2018-02-17T02:07:39Z

From: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>

Hello Masahiro, Ulf, Petr and all,

Here are a few words about the motivation behind this patch series.

First, the reason I got in touch with Kconfig is to optimize the
configuration of automotive kernels, as well as to align the kernel
configuration across a number of platforms. In the context of kernel
optimization, one of the primary goals is to filter out any features
that are not mentioned in the platform requirements.

Surprisingly or not, disabling a CONFIG option (which is assumed to
be unneeded) may be not so trivial. Especially it is not trivial, when
this CONFIG option is selected by a dozen of other configs. Before the
moment commit 1ccb27143360 ("kconfig: make "Selected by:" and
"Implied by:" readable") was submitted by Petr and eventually popped
up in v4.16-rc1, it was an absolute pain to break down the "Selected by"
reverse dependency expression in order to identify all those configs
which select (IOW *do not allow disabling*) a certain feature (assumed
to be not needed).

This patch series tries to make one step further and puts at users'
fingertips the revdep top level OR sub-expressions grouped/clustered by
the tristate value they evaluate to. This should allow the users to
directly concentrate on and tackle the active reverse dependencies,
which imho are the only ones that matter for a given ARCH and for a
given defconfig (nevertheless we still print all of them).

Changes v2->v3:
- Switch from reverse dependencies prefixed by their tristate value to
reverse dependencies grouped by the tristate value they evaluate to.
- Skip printing "{Selected,Implied} by [y|m|n]:" if there are no top
level OR tokens/sub-expressions that evaluate to y|m|n (suggested
by Petr).
- Use [1] as template for updating the interface/prototype of
__expr_print() (suggested by Ulf).

Changes v1->v2:
- Don't skip the =n reverse dependency OR tokens, since some users might
still need this information (suggested by Ulf).
- Instead of using "Selected by" for active tokens only, use it for all
OR tokens, but specify the tristate value of each token as prefix
(suggested by Masahiro).

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=151777006005199&w=4

Eugeniu Rosca (3):
kconfig: Print reverse dependencies on new line consistently
kconfig: Prepare for printing reverse dependencies in groups
kconfig: Print reverse dependencies in groups

scripts/kconfig/expr.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
scripts/kconfig/expr.h | 11 ++++-
scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h | 1 +
scripts/kconfig/menu.c | 37 ++++++++++----
4 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

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