Re: [RFC/POC] multiple CONFIG y/m/n

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:00:22 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > +void usage(char *progname)
> > +{
> > +	printf("%s [-o|-s|-d|-D|-n|-m|-y|-r] Kconfig_filename\n", progname);
> 
> |-D <config>|
> 
> > +	printf("  -o: oldconfig: ask only about new config symbols\n");
> > +	printf("  -s: silentoldconfig: don't ask about any symbol values\n");
> 
> It does ask about them, but suppresses a lot of prints.
> 
> > +	printf("  -d: defconfig: use default symbol values\n");
> 
> To be precise it uses arch/$ARCH/defconfig as default values.
> 
> > +	printf("  -n: set unknown symbol values to 'n'\n");
> > +	printf("  -m: set unknown symbol values to 'm'\n");
> > +	printf("  -y: set unknown symbol values to 'y'\n");
> 
> It actually tries to set all values to n/m/y.
> 
> > @@ -546,8 +564,8 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
> >  			break;
> >  		case 'h':
> >  		case '?':
> > -			printf("%s [-o|-s] config\n", av[0]);
> > -			exit(0);
> > +			usage(av[0]);
> > +			break;
> 
> That's indeed a little obsolete. :-)

IMO the main points/questions are:

- where to document the command-line options and environment variables
  (including the recent KCONFIG_CONFIG):  in a usage() function or in
  Documentation/kbuild/usage.txt file?

- if the answer above is in a usage() function, how does a user invoke
  that help request?  Doing "make config -h" doesn't work: 'make' sees
  the -h and spits out its own help text.  Would a special case of
  'make config help' be acceptable or is this a good reason to use
  a usage.txt file instead?

- or have you already taken care of all of this?  8;)


Thanks.
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~Randy