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From:   Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 1 Apr 2018 04:52:02 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/21] kconfig: remove string expansion in file_lookup()
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
> There are two callers of file_lookup().
>
> [1] zconf_initscan()
>     This is used to open the first Kconfig.  However, it cannot
>     contain environments in the file path because zconf_fopen() is
>     called before file_lookup().  By swapping the call order,
>     KBUILD_KCONFIG would be able to contain environments, but I do
>     not see practical benefits to support it.
>
> [2] zconf_nextfile()
>     This is used to open the next file from 'source' statement like
>         source "arch/$SRCARCH/Kconfig"
>     but this has already been expanded in the lexer phase.
>
> So, file_lookup() does not need to expand the given path.
>
> By the way, file_lookup() was already buggy; it expanded a given path,
> but it used the path before expansion for look-up:
>         if (!strcmp(name, file->name)) {
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

s/environments/environment variables/

Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>