On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > A few years ago I posted patches for a Python Kconfig parser and > library I was working on (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/6/151). As not > many people are probably aware of it, an updated version of that > library has been at https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib for a > while now, and is being used for some tasks in e.g. Buildroot and Das > U-Boot. > > As a concrete example, I just noticed scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py > and remembered that I have an example script that does the same thing > (minus some functionality): > https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/blob/master/examples/print_undefined.py. > > I have no intention to get Kconfiglib into the kernel (unless there > would be a demand), and it's definitely not meant to replace the C > implementation or introduce a Python dependency for standard builds. > It's just an auxiliary helper library which some people might find > useful -- especially when doing "unusual" things with Kconfig-based > configuration systems. Huh, I have a todo item to write the old 2.6.12 snapshot of kconfig I have in http://landley.net/toybox (it's the only gpl code left in the build), but I just got finished _removing_ python as a bulid dependency last year and am reluctant to reintroduce it. I gave up trying to patch upstream kconfig after a half-dozen rounds of https://lwn.net/Articles/161086/ and such were all ignored. (I just documented http://landley.net/aboriginal/FAQ.html#dev_miniconfig and went on with my life. Yes, still using miniconfig.sh a decade later...) (I have rather elaborate kconfig parsing to extract help text, I use specially formatted menuconfig help entries to create command help, and merge the sub-options to create a unified usage: line and alphabetically sorted option description list. That's the stuff that used to be python, which I rewrote in C last year. Somebody submitted a kconfig parser written in awk to toybox a couple years ago, but I can't maintain awk...) Rob -- 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
