Re: diet-kconfig: a script to trim unneeded kconfigs

Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-18T15:44:14Z

Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Hi Takashi,
>
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:55:26 +0200
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

>> The script is VERY hackish. I should have begun with perl or whatever
>> better script language, but I chose bash and co. So, don't expect
>> much code quality. I'm no script guy after all :)
>
> Using just a shellscript and binutils seems to be better than using other
> tools, since it allows the usage on minimal configured systems where the user
> might not have perl or other scripting languages.

But very slow, complex and not enough powerful:
The tools should have extensive knowledge about Kconfig,
and the CONFIG_ dependencies; it should handle a lot of
structures (text/binary; line/record oriented; etc.), which
it is not easy in shell (awk, od, sed with extended regexp are
not core utilities).

So my suggestion is: do it in a high level language, to find and
stabilize the design, and then integrate it in kconfig later (using
C).

ciao
cate