Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kconfiglib menuconfig implementation

[Ulf Magnusson]

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 6:47 AM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 6:03 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 05/19/2018 08:45 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 05/08/2018 09:59 AM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've added incremental search for jumping directly to a symbol now.
>>>> Regular expressions are supported as well.
>>>>
>>>> Some screenshots below:
>>>>
>>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/screenshots/screenshots/ss10.png
>>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/screenshots/screenshots/ss11.png
>>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/screenshots/screenshots/ss13.png
>>>>
>>>> The last screenshot shows how things might look after you jump to a
>>>> symbol. The jumped-to symbol wasn't visible in this case, so show-all
>>>> mode was turned on automatically.
>>>
>>> Hi Ulf,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hm, OK, I used the trick that you supplied a few weeks ago and I have the UI now.
>>>
>>>     ARCH=x86 SRCARCH=x86 KERNELVERSION=`make kernelversion` \
>>>         Kconfiglib/menuconfig.py
>>>
>>> so yes, a real Makefile target would be nice. :)
>>
>> I want to see all kconfig symbols that end with "_DEBUG" (so excluding
>> _DEBUGFS).  Using:
>>
>> /.*_DEBUG$
>>
>> shows me 6 symbols:
>> ATH9K_COMMON_DEBUG
>> DVB_B2C2_FLEXCOP_DEBUG
>> HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
>> IP_DCCP_TFRC_DEBUG
>> NFS_DEBUG
>> PM_SLEEP_DEBUG
>>
>> so where are the other (approx.) 176?
>> see:
>> $ find . -name Kconfig\* | xargs grep "config.*_DEBUG$" | grep -v \.orig | wc
>>     182     364    9179
>>
>>
>> Anyway, something for you to look at. :)
>>
>> --
>> ~Randy
>
> It's related to how the search is done. Searching for "DEBUG\b" (word
> boundary) instead will find all of them.
>
> A string is generated for each symbol. For symbols with prompts, this
> string includes the prompt as well, so you get e.g.
>
>     AB8500_DEBUG "Enable debug info via debugfs"
>
> Those strings are then searched/displayed.
>
> What you got with your search was all symbols whose names end in
> "_DEBUG" that don't have a prompt.
>
> The nice thing about searching both the name and the prompt is that
> e.g. "debugfs ab8500" will find the symbol above. I'm also planning to
> add menus to the search, by generating 'menu: "menu title"' strings
> for them.
>
> It's a bit awkward/unintuitive that what you tried doesn't work
> though. Maybe the symbol name could be searched separately from the
> prompt, though I'd be a bit sad to abandon the super simple
> single-string-per-entry implementation approach. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Ulf

Need to make that "_DEBUG\b" to avoid getting a bunch of hits in prompts though.

Searching the name separately from the prompt might give nicer
behavior when regexes are involved. People might not expect e.g.
'debug.*info' to match for AB8500_DEBUG either, but it would, because
the prompt has "info" in it. OTOH, for searches like that, you'd
usually just type "debug info", and then narrow it down with more
words.

Any opinions?

Cheers,
Ulf