From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, joeyli <jlee@suse.com>,
"Yann E . MORIN " <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] localmodconfig: Fix parsing of Kconfig "source" statements
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:29:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160418202912.GA15025@f1.synalogic.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160410235234.GA13689@f1.synalogic.ca>
On 2016/04/10 16:52, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> On 2016/04/08 14:29, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 10:55:21 -0700
> > Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The parameter of Kconfig "source" statements does not need to be quoted.
> > > The current regex causes many kconfig files to be skipped and hence,
> > > dependencies to be missed.
> > >
> > > Also fix the whitespace repeat count.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
> >
> > Thanks for sending this. I'll apply it. Should this be marked for
> > stable? And if so, how far back?
>
> The first problem dates back to the introduction of streamline_config.pl in
> dcc6024 kconfig: add streamline_config.pl to scripts (v2.6.32-rc1)
> The second problem started with
> 19e91b6 modsign: Allow external signing key to be specified (v4.3-rc1)
>
> However, I'm not sure that adding the patch to stable is warranted. I
> considered this with regards to the problem fixed by patch 1/2.
>
> First, I searched for cases where dependency info that's currently missing
> would lead to lead to symbols being erroneously deactivated but I did not find
> any. Since these cases are not so obvious and are quite rare in general, it's
> possible that I missed one but at this stage the problem is theoretical.
>
> Second, even if there is such a case, I'm not sure that the problem is
> "critical". streamline_config.pl may output an "invalid" config because
> it misses some dependencies but the config will be fixed by the
> invocation of silentoldconfig that comes right after in the
> localmodconfig makefile rule. It might not be the config the user
> wanted, but it will be valid.
>
> However, while looking for such a case, I've noticed a few other issues in
> streamline_config.pl and I'll send more patches shortly.
Hi Steven,
Can you please merge these six patches (2 original + 4 followups)?
Thank you,
-Benjamin
>
> >
> > -- Steve
> >
> > > ---
> > > scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl b/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl
> > > index f3d3fb4..7036ae3 100755
> > > --- a/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl
> > > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl
> > > @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ sub read_kconfig {
> > > $cont = 0;
> > >
> > > # collect any Kconfig sources
> > > - if (/^source\s*"(.*)"/) {
> > > + if (/^source\s+"?([^"]+)/) {
> > > my $kconfig = $1;
> > > # prevent reading twice.
> > > if (!defined($read_kconfigs{$kconfig})) {
> >
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-18 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-02 17:55 [PATCH 1/2] localmodconfig: Fix parsing of Kconfig "source" statements Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] localmodconfig: Reset certificate paths Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-08 14:59 ` joeyli
2016-04-26 14:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-04-26 18:51 ` Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-26 18:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-26 19:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-04-08 14:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] localmodconfig: Fix parsing of Kconfig "source" statements joeyli
2016-04-26 14:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-04-08 18:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-04-10 23:52 ` Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-11 0:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] localmodconfig: Recognize more keywords that end a menu entry Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-11 0:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] localmodconfig: Fix parsing of "help" text Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-11 0:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] localmodconfig: Add missing $ to reference a variable Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-11 0:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] localmodconfig: Recognize standalone "prompt" Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-26 15:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-04-26 18:54 ` Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-26 18:56 ` [PATCH v2] localmodconfig: Fix whitespace repeat count after "tristate" Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-26 19:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-04-26 21:35 ` Benjamin Poirier
2016-04-26 22:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-04-18 20:29 ` Benjamin Poirier [this message]
2016-04-18 21:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] localmodconfig: Fix parsing of Kconfig "source" statements Steven Rostedt
2016-04-18 23:49 ` Benjamin Poirier
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