Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752878Ab1BDXm7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:42:59 -0500 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:41748 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751085Ab1BDXm5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:42:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4D4C8EFA.40207@landley.net> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:42:50 -0600 From: Rob Landley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: Ulf Magnusson , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, mmarek@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org, andrea.gelmini@gelma.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ANNOUNCE] kconfig: Kconfiglib: a flexible Python Kconfig parser References: <20110201232750.GA30800@ulf> <20110204143529.f49e92e5.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20110204143529.f49e92e5.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1801 Lines: 37 On 02/04/2011 04:35 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> The patch should be preferably be applied to a recent kernel, i.e. Linus's >> (2.6.38-rc3 at the time of writing). Due to recent Kconfig changes, the >> kconfigtest.py test suite - which compares output character-for-character - >> will indicate failure on older (a few months old) kernels versions even though >> the outputs are functionally equivalent. >> >> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 5 + >> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt | 8 + >> README | 13 + >> scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 26 +- >> scripts/kconfig/kconfiglib.py | 3918 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> scripts/kconfig/kconfigtest.py | 396 +++ >> 6 files changed, 4365 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/kconfiglib.py >> create mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/kconfigtest.py Wait, I thought this was an extra standalone library. Are you saying you want to make it so Linux will no longer compile on a build machine that doesn't have Python installed? If this is merely an extra developer tool ala bloat-o-meter and checkpatch.pl then it's merely uninteresting to me. (I myself wrote a quick and dirty http://kernel.org/doc/make/menuconfig2html.py to generate http://kernel.org/doc/menuconfig/x86.html and friends years ago, and I still run it to update that once in a while. There's not much to it.) But adding new prerequities to a build machine would be really annoying for my use cases. Rob -- 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/