Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:06:43 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kconfig: simplification of scripts/extract-ikconfig |
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:08:59AM +0200, Dick Streefland wrote: > On Friday 2009-07-17 23:17, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > | Dick - I lost the original patch. > | Can you please resend. > | > | In the changelog please include the information that > | you tested this with relevant grep versions. > > Sure, here it is: > > ====================================================================== > > I've rewritten the extract-ikconfig script to extract the kernel > configuration from a kernel compiled with CONFIG_IKCONFIG. The main > motivation for the rewrite was to remove the dependency on the > external C program binoffset.c, which is compiled on the initial run. > > The binoffset executable is invoked with a relative path, which means > that the old script can only be run from the top of the kernel tree, > and only when you have write permission in the scripts directory. > The new script uses tr/grep/tail/zcat only, and can be invoked from > anywhere. The binoffset.c program has been removed. This script > requires GNU grep 2.5 (released 2002-03-13) or higher, because the -o > option was introduced in that version. > > Signed-off-by: Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net>
Applied to kbuild-next.git.
Sam
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