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authorLaura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>2019-11-04 17:10:08 -0500
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-11-11 20:10:01 +0900
commit5d8b42aa7ccbfa09c361b3a5289c1a7e380847ff (patch)
tree1f2a1f03b1e2c9c744f4b96c45e12f1e5590ab07 /scripts/kconfig/Makefile
parentaf7db99a1caf29b05a81bfee596b9d2778eb7e39 (diff)
kconfig: Add option to get the full help text with listnewconfig
make listnewconfig will list the individual options that need to be set. This is useful but there's no easy way to get the help text associated with the options at the same time. Introduce a new targe 'make helpnewconfig' which lists the full help text of all the new options as well. This makes it easier to automatically generate changes that are easy for humans to review. This command also adds markers between each option for easier parsing. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/kconfig/Makefile')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index 588b55f9f618..2f1a59fa5169 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ localyesconfig localmodconfig: $(obj)/conf
# syncconfig has become an internal implementation detail and is now
# deprecated for external use
simple-targets := oldconfig allnoconfig allyesconfig allmodconfig \
- alldefconfig randconfig listnewconfig olddefconfig syncconfig
+ alldefconfig randconfig listnewconfig olddefconfig syncconfig \
+ helpnewconfig
+
PHONY += $(simple-targets)
$(simple-targets): $(obj)/conf
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ help:
@echo ' alldefconfig - New config with all symbols set to default'
@echo ' randconfig - New config with random answer to all options'
@echo ' listnewconfig - List new options'
+ @echo ' helpnewconfig - List new options and help text'
@echo ' olddefconfig - Same as oldconfig but sets new symbols to their'
@echo ' default value without prompting'
@echo ' kvmconfig - Enable additional options for kvm guest kernel support'