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authorLaura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>2019-11-04 17:10:08 -0500
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-11-11 20:10:01 +0900
commit5d8b42aa7ccbfa09c361b3a5289c1a7e380847ff (patch)
tree1f2a1f03b1e2c9c744f4b96c45e12f1e5590ab07 /scripts/kconfig/conf.c
parentkbuild: Add make dir-pkg build option (diff)
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kconfig: Add option to get the full help text with listnewconfig
make listnewconfig will list the individual options that need to be set. This is useful but there's no easy way to get the help text associated with the options at the same time. Introduce a new targe 'make helpnewconfig' which lists the full help text of all the new options as well. This makes it easier to automatically generate changes that are easy for humans to review. This command also adds markers between each option for easier parsing. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--scripts/kconfig/conf.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
index 40e16e871ae2..1f89bf1558ce 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ enum input_mode {
defconfig,
savedefconfig,
listnewconfig,
+ helpnewconfig,
olddefconfig,
};
static enum input_mode input_mode = oldaskconfig;
@@ -434,6 +435,11 @@ static void check_conf(struct menu *menu)
printf("%s%s=%s\n", CONFIG_, sym->name, str);
}
}
+ } else if (input_mode == helpnewconfig) {
+ printf("-----\n");
+ print_help(menu);
+ printf("-----\n");
+
} else {
if (!conf_cnt++)
printf("*\n* Restart config...\n*\n");
@@ -459,6 +465,7 @@ static struct option long_opts[] = {
{"alldefconfig", no_argument, NULL, alldefconfig},
{"randconfig", no_argument, NULL, randconfig},
{"listnewconfig", no_argument, NULL, listnewconfig},
+ {"helpnewconfig", no_argument, NULL, helpnewconfig},
{"olddefconfig", no_argument, NULL, olddefconfig},
{NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
};
@@ -469,6 +476,7 @@ static void conf_usage(const char *progname)
printf("Usage: %s [-s] [option] <kconfig-file>\n", progname);
printf("[option] is _one_ of the following:\n");
printf(" --listnewconfig List new options\n");
+ printf(" --helpnewconfig List new options and help text\n");
printf(" --oldaskconfig Start a new configuration using a line-oriented program\n");
printf(" --oldconfig Update a configuration using a provided .config as base\n");
printf(" --syncconfig Similar to oldconfig but generates configuration in\n"
@@ -543,6 +551,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
case allmodconfig:
case alldefconfig:
case listnewconfig:
+ case helpnewconfig:
case olddefconfig:
break;
case '?':
@@ -576,6 +585,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
case oldaskconfig:
case oldconfig:
case listnewconfig:
+ case helpnewconfig:
case olddefconfig:
conf_read(NULL);
break;
@@ -657,6 +667,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
/* fall through */
case oldconfig:
case listnewconfig:
+ case helpnewconfig:
case syncconfig:
/* Update until a loop caused no more changes */
do {
@@ -675,7 +686,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
defconfig_file);
return 1;
}
- } else if (input_mode != listnewconfig) {
+ } else if (input_mode != listnewconfig && input_mode != helpnewconfig) {
if (!no_conf_write && conf_write(NULL)) {
fprintf(stderr, "\n*** Error during writing of the configuration.\n\n");
exit(1);