Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:20:31 +0200 | | From | Takashi Iwai <> | | Subject | Re: diet-kconfig: a script to trim unneeded kconfigs |
At Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:43:48 +0200,
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
>
> 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).
It's not that slow.
> 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).
Maybe a good idea to add such functionality into kbuild itself.
It's THE parser after all.
thanks,
Takashi
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