On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 05:42:50PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > 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? No - it's completely standalone, and should have no effect on things that do not use Kconfiglib. The only changes besides adding the script itself is to add two (well, three - there's one that's only used by kconfigtest.py) targets to scripts/kconfig/Makefile that make it easier to use the library by ensuring the environment is set up correctly. > > 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 You would only need to have Python installed if you are going to use Kconfiglib directly (hard to get around with a Python library). /Ulf -- 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
