On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:27:52AM +0100, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > Hi, > > This is the initial release of Kconfiglib: a Python library for > scripting, debugging, and extracting information from Kconfig-based > configuration systems. It can be used to programmatically generate a > .config when the '*conf' tools are too inflexible, to quickly find out > interesting information about a Kconfig configuration such as dependency > relations between symbols and where undefined symbols are referenced, > and in applications that need to parse and extract information from > Kconfig files. > > For a much longer introduction including multiple examples, see > arch/kconfig/kconfiglib.py. > > Have fun! > > Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Convenience links: > > Documentation, generated from kconfiglib.py with pydoc -w: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10406197/kconfiglib.html > > Examples as separate files: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10406197/kconfiglib-examples.tar.gz > > > 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. > > [...] Seems linux-kbuild and linux-doc won't accept the patch (too large?), so here's a link to the message on linux-kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/1/439 /Ulf Magnusson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
