Re: Programatically modifying .config

[Randy Dunlap]

On 05/16/17 03:57, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sun 2017-03-12 16:38:02, Drew DeVault wrote:
>> I'm in the research stage of making it so something to the effect of
>> `make setconfig OPTION="CONFIG_E100E=y"` will work, bringing it up here
>> for some discussion first.
>>
>> Digging into the kconfig code, this seems feasible, but complicated. A
>> simple solver of some sort will be necessary to make the Depends expr
>> true, and this tool would also have to hit up the Selects and Implies
>> lines.
>>
>> I expect there will be edge cases that this tool can't cope with, and
>> I'm okay with just letting that be the case.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> You can prepend (or append?) desired config option to .config, then
> run make oldconfig. And yes, script for automatically modifying
> .config would be nice... as would be script to automatically do
> "configuration bisect" (because some bugs are config dependend and
> nasty).


tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl has some support for config bisecting.
(I have not tried it.)


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~Randy