Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: new command line kernel configuration tool

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 07:55:27AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > This tool barely works, it's just a rough draft.
> >
> > Sometimes I want to search for a config so I have to load menuconfig,
> > then search for the config entry, then exit.  With this script I
> > simply run:
> >
> >     ./scripts/kconfig/kconfig search COMEDI
> >
> > Quite often I find myself trying to enable a feature by doing this:
> >
> >     echo CONFIG_FEATURE=y >> .config
> >
> > But when I try to boot the new kernel, I find that the feature isn't
> > there because the kernel runs `make oldconfig` and I didn't have all
> > the depends selected so it silently removed it.  With this feature
> > what you can do is:
> >
> >     ./scripts/kconfig/kconfig set FEATURE=y
> 
> Sounds useful. I need to enable few options from scripts and if
> dependencies change they could be silently skipped.
> 
> Probably it would be nice to print what was effectively enabled to get
> your feature in. However why not extending existing scripts/config? It
> already has the feature for setting kconfig options (without looking
> at dependencies - so like >> of yours).
> 

I didn't know about scripts/config when I wrote it.  scripts/config is
essentially a UI around "echo CONFIG_FOO=m >> .config".  It's totally
useless.

regards,
dan carpenter