[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3 2/2] kconfig: rename silentoldconfig to syncconfig

Ulf Magnusson ulfalizer at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 14:10:19 UTC 2018


On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:34 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> As commit cedd55d49dee ("kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help
> and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help") mentioned, 'silentoldconfig' is a
> historical misnomer.  That commit removed it from help and docs since
> it is an internal interface.  If so, it should be allowed to rename
> it to something more intuitive.  'syncconfig' is the one I came up
> with because it updates the .config if necessary, then synchronize
> include/generated/autoconf.h and include/config/* with it.
>
> You should not manually invoke 'silentoldcofig'.  Display warning if
> used in case existing scripts are doing wrong.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
>   - Fix Documentation/networking/i40e.txt
>   - Display warning if silentoldconfig is used
>
> Changes in v2:
>   - newly added
>
>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt  |  2 +-
>  Documentation/networking/i40e.txt |  2 +-
>  Makefile                          |  2 +-
>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile          | 13 ++++++++++---
>  scripts/kconfig/conf.c            | 20 ++++++++++----------
>  5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
> index bbc99c0..7233118 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Examples:
>                 15% of tristates will be set to 'y', 15% to 'm', 70% to 'n'
>
>  ______________________________________________________________________
> -Environment variables for 'silentoldconfig'
> +Environment variables for 'syncconfig'
>
>  KCONFIG_NOSILENTUPDATE
>  --------------------------------------------------
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt b/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt
> index 57e616e..c2d6e18 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Enabling the driver
>  The driver is enabled via the standard kernel configuration system,
>  using the make command:
>
> -     Make oldconfig/silentoldconfig/menuconfig/etc.
> +     make config/oldconfig/menuconfig/etc.
>
>  The driver is located in the menu structure at:
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 7f0aba6..4fb97e9 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) include/config/auto.conf.cmd: ;
>  # include/generated/ and include/config/. Update them if .config is newer than
>  # include/config/auto.conf (which mirrors .config).
>  include/config/%.conf: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) include/config/auto.conf.cmd
> -       $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile silentoldconfig
> +       $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile syncconfig
>  else
>  # external modules needs include/generated/autoconf.h and include/config/auto.conf
>  # but do not care if they are up-to-date. Use auto.conf to trigger the test
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> index 41e2a9f..753a6de4 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>  # Kernel configuration targets
>  # These targets are used from top-level makefile
>
> -PHONY += xconfig gconfig menuconfig config silentoldconfig update-po-config \
> +PHONY += xconfig gconfig menuconfig config syncconfig update-po-config \
>         localmodconfig localyesconfig
>
>  ifdef KBUILD_KCONFIG
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ nconfig: $(obj)/nconf
>
>  # This has become an internal implementation detail and is now deprecated
>  # for external use.
> -silentoldconfig: $(obj)/conf
> +syncconfig: $(obj)/conf
>         $(Q)mkdir -p include/config include/generated
>         $(Q)test -e include/generated/autoksyms.h || \
>             touch   include/generated/autoksyms.h
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ PHONY += $(simple-targets)
>  $(simple-targets): $(obj)/conf
>         $< $(silent) --$@ $(Kconfig)
>
> -PHONY += oldnoconfig savedefconfig defconfig
> +PHONY += oldnoconfig silentoldconfig savedefconfig defconfig
>
>  # oldnoconfig is an alias of olddefconfig, because people already are dependent
>  # on its behavior (sets new symbols to their default value but not 'n') with the
> @@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ oldnoconfig: olddefconfig
>         @echo "  WARNING: \"oldnoconfig\" target will be removed after Linux 4.19"
>         @echo "            Please use \"olddefconfig\" instead, which is an alias."
>
> +# We do not expect manual invokcation of "silentoldcofig" (or "syncconfig").
> +silentoldconfig: syncconfig
> +       @echo "  WARNING: \"silentoldconfig\" has been renamed to \"syncconfig\""
> +       @echo "            and is now an internal implementation detail."
> +       @echo "            What you want is probably \"oldconfig\"."
> +       @echo "            \"silentoldconfig\" will be removed after Linux 4.19"
> +
>  savedefconfig: $(obj)/conf
>         $< $(silent) --$@=defconfig $(Kconfig)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
> index 11a4e45..4e08121 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static void check_conf(struct menu *menu);
>
>  enum input_mode {
>         oldaskconfig,
> -       silentoldconfig,
> +       syncconfig,
>         oldconfig,
>         allnoconfig,
>         allyesconfig,
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int conf_askvalue(struct symbol *sym, const char *def)
>
>         switch (input_mode) {
>         case oldconfig:
> -       case silentoldconfig:
> +       case syncconfig:
>                 if (sym_has_value(sym)) {
>                         printf("%s\n", def);
>                         return 0;
> @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static int conf_choice(struct menu *menu)
>                 printf("[1-%d?]: ", cnt);
>                 switch (input_mode) {
>                 case oldconfig:
> -               case silentoldconfig:
> +               case syncconfig:
>                         if (!is_new) {
>                                 cnt = def;
>                                 printf("%d\n", cnt);
> @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static void check_conf(struct menu *menu)
>  static struct option long_opts[] = {
>         {"oldaskconfig",    no_argument,       NULL, oldaskconfig},
>         {"oldconfig",       no_argument,       NULL, oldconfig},
> -       {"silentoldconfig", no_argument,       NULL, silentoldconfig},
> +       {"syncconfig",      no_argument,       NULL, syncconfig},
>         {"defconfig",       optional_argument, NULL, defconfig},
>         {"savedefconfig",   required_argument, NULL, savedefconfig},
>         {"allnoconfig",     no_argument,       NULL, allnoconfig},
> @@ -468,8 +468,8 @@ static void conf_usage(const char *progname)
>         printf("  --listnewconfig         List new options\n");
>         printf("  --oldaskconfig          Start a new configuration using a line-oriented program\n");
>         printf("  --oldconfig             Update a configuration using a provided .config as base\n");
> -       printf("  --silentoldconfig       Similar to oldconfig but generates configuration in\n"
> -              "                          include/{generated/,config/} (oldconfig used to be more verbose)\n");
> +       printf("  --syncconfig            Similar to oldconfig but generates configuration in\n"
> +              "                          include/{generated/,config/}\n");
>         printf("  --olddefconfig          Same as oldconfig but sets new symbols to their default value\n");
>         printf("  --oldnoconfig           An alias of olddefconfig\n");
>         printf("  --defconfig <file>      New config with default defined in <file>\n");
> @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
>                 }
>                 input_mode = (enum input_mode)opt;
>                 switch (opt) {
> -               case silentoldconfig:
> +               case syncconfig:
>                         sync_kconfig = 1;
>                         break;
>                 case defconfig:
> @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
>                 }
>                 break;
>         case savedefconfig:
> -       case silentoldconfig:
> +       case syncconfig:
>         case oldaskconfig:
>         case oldconfig:
>         case listnewconfig:
> @@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
>                 /* fall through */
>         case oldconfig:
>         case listnewconfig:
> -       case silentoldconfig:
> +       case syncconfig:
>                 /* Update until a loop caused no more changes */
>                 do {
>                         conf_cnt = 0;
> @@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
>         }
>
>         if (sync_kconfig) {
> -               /* silentoldconfig is used during the build so we shall update autoconf.
> +               /* syncconfig is used during the build so we shall update autoconf.
>                  * All other commands are only used to generate a config.
>                  */
>                 if (conf_get_changed() && conf_write(NULL)) {
> --
> 2.7.4
>

Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer at gmail.com>

Cheers,
Ulf


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