public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@gmail.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org,
	mmarek@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	andrea.gelmini@gelma.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ANNOUNCE] kconfig: Kconfiglib: a flexible Python Kconfig parser
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:42:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4C8EFA.40207@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110204143529.f49e92e5.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

On 02/04/2011 04:35 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> The patch should be preferably be applied to a recent kernel, i.e. Linus's
>> (2.6.38-rc3 at the time of writing).  Due to recent Kconfig changes, the
>> kconfigtest.py test suite - which compares output character-for-character -
>> will indicate failure on older (a few months old) kernels versions even though
>> the outputs are functionally equivalent.
>>
>>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt |    5 +
>>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt          |    8 +
>>  README                                    |   13 +
>>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile                  |   26 +-
>>  scripts/kconfig/kconfiglib.py             | 3918 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  scripts/kconfig/kconfigtest.py            |  396 +++
>>  6 files changed, 4365 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/kconfiglib.py
>>  create mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/kconfigtest.py

Wait, I thought this was an extra standalone library.  Are you saying
you want to make it so Linux will no longer compile on a build machine
that doesn't have Python installed?

If this is merely an extra developer tool ala bloat-o-meter and
checkpatch.pl then it's merely uninteresting to me.  (I myself wrote a
quick and dirty http://kernel.org/doc/make/menuconfig2html.py to
generate http://kernel.org/doc/menuconfig/x86.html and friends years
ago, and I still run it to update that once in a while.  There's not
much to it.)

But adding new prerequities to a build machine would be really annoying
for my use cases.

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01 23:27 [PATCH] [ANNOUNCE] kconfig: Kconfiglib: a flexible Python Kconfig parser Ulf Magnusson
2011-02-02  0:47 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-02-02  2:02   ` Ulf Magnusson
2011-02-03 21:58 ` Ulf Magnusson
2011-02-03 22:16   ` Ulf Magnusson
2011-02-04 22:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-02-04 23:42   ` Rob Landley [this message]
2011-02-05  0:28     ` Filip Honckiewicz
2011-02-05  1:00       ` Ulf Magnusson
2011-02-05  0:38     ` Ulf Magnusson
2011-02-05  0:28   ` Ulf Magnusson
2011-02-10 23:14 ` Michal Marek
2011-02-16  4:48   ` Ulf Magnusson
2011-02-16 15:20     ` Ulf Magnusson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4D4C8EFA.40207@landley.net \
    --to=rob@landley.net \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=andrea.gelmini@gelma.net \
    --cc=linux-doc@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mmarek@suse.cz \
    --cc=rdunlap@xenotime.net \
    --cc=ulfalizer.lkml@gmail.com \
    --cc=zippel@linux-m68k.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox