Re: [RFC] kconfig: a new command line tool to set configs

From: Michal Marek
Date: Mon Jun 15 2015 - 08:56:00 EST


On 2015-05-12 12:31, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is an ugly hack job I made last night and it barely works. It
> does two things:
>
> 1) Sometimes I want to search for a config so I have to load
> menuconfig, then search for the config entry, then exit. With
> this script I simply run:
>
> ./scripts/kconfig/kconfig search COMEDI
>
> 2) I quite often try to enable something by doing:
>
> echo CONFIG_FOO=y >> .config
> make oldconfig
> grep CONFIG_FOO .config
>
> The grep is to see if the setting worked. Now I can do:
>
> ./scripts/kconfig/kconfig set CONFIG_FOO=y

The second use-case is provided by scripts/config already. It's is a lot
simpler shell script, but it's maybe good enough for such task.

Michal
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