Re: [PATCH] kconfig: simplification of scripts/extract-ikconfig

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: simplification of scripts/extract-ikconfig
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:06:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090718070643.GA7703@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090717230859.GB10171@streefland.net>

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:08:59AM +0200, Dick Streefland wrote:
> On Friday 2009-07-17 23:17, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> | Dick - I lost the original patch.
> | Can you please resend.
> | 
> | In the changelog please include the information that
> | you tested this with relevant grep versions.
> 
> Sure, here it is:
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> I've rewritten the extract-ikconfig script to extract the kernel
> configuration from a kernel compiled with CONFIG_IKCONFIG. The main
> motivation for the rewrite was to remove the dependency on the
> external C program binoffset.c, which is compiled on the initial run.
> 
> The binoffset executable is invoked with a relative path, which means
> that the old script can only be run from the top of the kernel tree,
> and only when you have write permission in the scripts directory.
> The new script uses tr/grep/tail/zcat only, and can be invoked from
> anywhere. The binoffset.c program has been removed. This script
> requires GNU grep 2.5 (released 2002-03-13) or higher, because the -o
> option was introduced in that version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net>

Applied to kbuild-next.git.

	Sam