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 |
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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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