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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] kconfig: Make localmodconfig handle environment variables
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:37:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEE90C9.8060607@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinZtnyL9CX8yHyXGN6S_2OHSEC-oJ_+eyNRApwE@mail.gmail.com>

On 25.11.2010 17:21, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>> What information does localmodconfig need? A list of config options and
>> their computed dependencies and a flag for each option if it has prompt,
>> anything else? So a scripts/kconfig/conf --dump-kconfig that would
>> produce such flat list should suffice, without the complexity of having
>> to build a perl binding first (and would be usable from bash/awk/python
>> scripts as well). What do you think?
>>
> Just as a FYI, the output of zconfdump() does not respect the kconfig
> syntax. I've got some patches to fix that, but I've not been able to
> touch them since a few weeks now.

I'm not saying zconfdump() has to be used or that it has to follow the
kconfig syntax (*), just that a pipe interface between the C kconfig and
a Perl script might be easier to implement and use :-).

(*) Although using a subset of the kconfig syntax would be a good idea
definitely.

Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-25 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-29  5:43 [PATCH 0/5] [GIT PULL] kconfig: Fixes to make localmodconfig Steven Rostedt
2010-10-29  5:43 ` [PATCH 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] kconfig: Make localmodconfig handle environment variables Steven Rostedt
2010-10-30  0:26   ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-10-30  1:27     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-31 22:05       ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-09  0:49         ` Steven Rostedt
2010-11-25 15:45           ` Michal Marek
2010-11-25 16:21             ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-25 16:37               ` Michal Marek [this message]
2010-10-29  5:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] [PATCH 2/5] kconfig: Fix variable name typo %prompts in streamline_config.pl Steven Rostedt
2010-10-29  5:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] [PATCH 3/5] kconfig: Fix missing declaration of variable $dir " Steven Rostedt
2010-10-29  5:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] [PATCH 4/5] kconfig: Fix streamline_config to read multi line deps in Kconfig files Steven Rostedt
2010-10-29  5:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] [PATCH 5/5] kconfig: Have streamline_config process menuconfigs too Steven Rostedt

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