Re: Kconfig: '+config' valid syntax?

[Ulf Magnusson]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Valentin Rothberg
<valentinrothberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> commit ed013214afa7 ("ACPI / init: Make it possible to override _REV")
> is in today's linux-next tree (i.e., next-20150702) adding the
> following hunk to drivers/acpi/Kconfig:
>
> --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> @@ -428,6 +428,26 @@ config XPOWER_PMIC_OPREGION
>         help
>           This config adds ACPI operation region support for XPower AXP288 PMIC.
>
> ++config ACPI_REV_OVERRIDE_POSSIBLE
> +       bool "Allow supported ACPI revision to be overriden"
> +       depends on X86
> +       default y
> [...]
>
> By having a close look at the first added line, we can see that
> '+config ACPI_...' is added.  To my great surprise, it's valid Kconfig
> syntax.  How is that possible?  IMHO it's an invalid token, such that
> Kconfig should complain about it.  Or do I miss something?
>
> Kind regards,
>  Valentin

For another take on this, you could look at the Config._tokenize() function
in Kconfiglib (https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/blob/master/kconfiglib.py).
Here's a relevant comment from that function:

# The initial word on a line is parsed specially. Let
# command_chars = [A-Za-z0-9_]. Then
#  - leading non-command_chars characters are ignored, and
#  - the first token consists the following one or more
#    command_chars characters.
# This is why things like "----help--" are accepted.

The root cause is sloppy lexing in zconf.l, IIRC. I didn't check
whether it's been
improved, but Kconfiglib needs to be backwards compatible either way.

/Ulf
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