Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753784AbbGCK4n (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2015 06:56:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:33093 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754868AbbGCK4h (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2015 06:56:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1435827662.2423.4.camel@tiscali.nl> <55952723.80801@fau.de> <1435839005.2423.28.camel@tiscali.nl> <55963AD7.3040905@fau.de> <1435913987.2423.38.camel@tiscali.nl> <559655E3.6010400@fau.de> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:56:35 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: WxYGCYIztk92k1BO1cjq6bhqh-I Message-ID: Subject: Re: Kconfig: '+config' valid syntax? From: Stefan Hengelein To: Valentin Rothberg Cc: Ulf Magnusson , Andreas Ruprecht , Paul Bolle , rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, "open list:KCONFIG" , Kernel Mailing List , linux@dominikbrodowski.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1828 Lines: 45 2015-07-03 12:51 GMT+02:00 Valentin Rothberg : >>> >>> The output looks like this: >>> scripts/kconfig/conf --allyesconfig Kconfig >>> arch/x86/Kconfig:4:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> arch/x86/Kconfig:4:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> arch/x86/Kconfig:4:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> init/Kconfig:222:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> init/Kconfig:222:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> init/Kconfig:222:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> init/Kconfig:244:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> init/Kconfig:244:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> init/Kconfig:244:warning: ignoring unsupported character '-' >>> [...] >>> >>> So we would need to add special treatment for '-' also in the command >>> case, right? But that doesn't look appealing to me, more like a dirty, >>> dirty hack around the actual problem... >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Andreas >>> >> >> Except for scattered accidents like in the original message, which are >> hopefully pretty rare and easy to fix, the only documented thing that depends >> on that lexer sloppiness is the ---help--- "token". >> >> I'd just add "---help---" as another T_HELP alias (or get rid of it altogether, >> but that's probably more work than it's worth). Tightening things up should be >> safe after that. > > This idea has a big ACK from me. It seems to me the cleanest way to > solve the issue. > Agreed! I also wanted to suggest this solution, but Ulf was faster :) Kind Regards, Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/