From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72A06481 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2017 19:43:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-it0-f67.google.com (mail-it0-f67.google.com [209.85.214.67]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E40E517E for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2017 19:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-it0-f67.google.com with SMTP id v193so10304840itc.2 for ; Sun, 09 Jul 2017 12:43:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <404833db-da51-e348-060e-c3b4f6a27e0d@infradead.org> References: <20170706144028.46a2mt2mdzpt6ip7@mwanda> <20170706144208.6hlgxwo37gntk6qm@mwanda> <20170707090206.uiry6j7yizpl7yw4@mwanda> <404833db-da51-e348-060e-c3b4f6a27e0d@infradead.org> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 21:43:20 +0200 Message-ID: To: Randy Dunlap Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Dan Carpenter , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: new command line kernel configuration tool List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 07/09/2017 01:31 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: >>>> Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >>>>> 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. >>> >>> Maybe useless for you but i use it every day in my work. To compile a kernel >> >> I assume the script has it uses. >> But to scratch Dan's itch (and mine, for generating .config from DTS), which >> is the non-trivial case, it may not work. >> So I'll definitely give Dan's script a try, thanks! >> >>> yes "" | make $(make_options) oldconfig >> >> That will become an infinite loop if "y" is not a valid answer for the newly >> introduced option (e.g. if it needs a number)? > > yes "" > just answers with a null string, not 'y'. Oops, that's correct. /me on a lazy Sunday afternoon... So the difficult part is "yes y" or "yes n". Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds