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[43.250.207.3]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g32sm404085pgl.89.2020.09.10.20.40.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:10:41 +0530 From: Bhaskar Chowdhury To: Randy Dunlap Cc: masahiroy@kernel.org, jeremie.francois@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] scripts : config : Added example use when run without argument,extend help Message-ID: <20200911034037.GA4063@debian> Mail-Followup-To: Bhaskar Chowdhury , Randy Dunlap , masahiroy@kernel.org, jeremie.francois@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org References: <20200911015421.22193-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com> <508f3917-8b3f-fe38-f6bf-43f5026fc4e2@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="huq684BweRXVnRxX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <508f3917-8b3f-fe38-f6bf-43f5026fc4e2@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 20:08 Thu 10 Sep 2020, Randy Dunlap wrote: >On 9/10/20 6:54 PM, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote: >> This patch extends the help section by adding an explicit example of use. >>=20 >> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury >> --- > >Difference between versions goes here. > >> scripts/config | 17 +++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) >>=20 >> diff --git a/scripts/config b/scripts/config >> index eee5b7f3a092..d905dccabb94 100755 >> --- a/scripts/config >> +++ b/scripts/config >> @@ -45,6 +45,23 @@ make time. >> By default, $myname will upper-case the given symbol. Use --keep-case t= o keep >> the case of all following symbols unchanged. >> =20 >> +The concrete example, say, you want to change any particular config,like > > config, li= ke > >> +GCOV for profiling, you can simply use this command > > command. > >> + >> +To enable: >> + >> +#scripts/config --enable GCOV_KERNEL && grep GCOV .config >> + >> + and the output will be like this: >> + >> + CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=3Dy >> + >> +To disable: >> + >> +#scripts/config --disable GCOV_KERNEL && grep GCOV .config >> + >> +# CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL is not set >> + >> $myname uses 'CONFIG_' as the default symbol prefix. Set the environment >> variable CONFIG_ to the prefix to use. Eg.: CONFIG_=3D"FOO_" $myname ... >> EOL >>=20 > >I don't know why we need this extra help text. I am not sure I get you ...should have mentioned in the first place, so it save some of my time ....moreover, I was doing it because I felt it necessa= ry to let the user of this script to know what/how easily things can be done.Period. Look like decision making is badly bugged.=20 ~Bhaskar=20 >--=20 >~Randy > --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEnwF+nWawchZUPOuwsjqdtxFLKRUFAl9a8bIACgkQsjqdtxFL KRX4LAf/SAS+VQ9m3u7u+dCla1Ey+5tRVkXNDI+8rko4iJUMJF6WJnQ2bHQSgeo3 x6wtaroyZZ8OfOblF0dgqwK5WG2EcDlWzTdB3DR5KPosvXATukE0llY/USv31TcH fvcJHDV2/5hOxSmDg+3QWfBknMy4n5hc1zrSEvCRvo4CUe2B4doDe5AxFtGWLvG9 eQFlx9HGO/YEgHJFwv7fkU+ttqbFnV3yM4gXq0XApAVN7lS9mVmVVPZzFwrW8L6x OIvWUgrQKtPjMDSEZvpgaLuW15AIXOJByZ0Z2PGCa38bqR5NTecd0asnV9BJW2nP mr+wz+dm1FyhbtCRmhw9jZ3u7HEdiw== =GWJq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--