Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:43:48 +0200 | From | "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <> | Subject | Re: diet-kconfig: a script to trim unneeded kconfigs |
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Takashi, > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:55:26 +0200 > Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>> The script is VERY hackish. I should have begun with perl or whatever >> better script language, but I chose bash and co. So, don't expect >> much code quality. I'm no script guy after all :) > > Using just a shellscript and binutils seems to be better than using other > tools, since it allows the usage on minimal configured systems where the user > might not have perl or other scripting languages.
But very slow, complex and not enough powerful: The tools should have extensive knowledge about Kconfig, and the CONFIG_ dependencies; it should handle a lot of structures (text/binary; line/record oriented; etc.), which it is not easy in shell (awk, od, sed with extended regexp are not core utilities).
So my suggestion is: do it in a high level language, to find and stabilize the design, and then integrate it in kconfig later (using C).
ciao cate
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