Re: [PATCH] PoC "make xconfig" Search Facility

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:50:41 +0200 Shlomi Fish wrote:

Hi all!

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This patch adds a proof-of-concept search facility to "make xconfig". Current
problems and limitations:

1. Only case-insensitive single-substring search is supported.

2. The style is completely wrong, as I could not find a suitable vim
configuration for editing Linux kernel source (and Google was not help). If
anyone can refer me to one, I'll be grateful.

I don't know of a vim config for kernel source code.
Just read/use Documentation/CodingStyle, although for this code that probably
doesn't matter so much (since this isn't kernel run-time code).

3. At the moment the results are displayed in a listbox as text. One cannot go
from the result node to the place to toggle it in the configuration. (much
less from one of it ancessorts)

But it works!

The patch is against kernel 2.6.16-git13.

Comments, suggestions, corrections, and flames are welcome.

Thanks. It's useful and a good start.

A one-line comment about how to invoke it would have been nice:
Use Edit/Find or Ctrl-F to invoke the search (find) tool.

To be really useful it needs to display items that SELECT the search string
IMO. Look at how menuconfig can do that.

E.g., for FW_LOADER (my favorite because it keeps me from disabling HOTPLUG
so often), using /FW_LOADER in menuconfig tells me what SELECTs FW_LOADER
as well as where it's defined.

Being able to enter more queries without leaving the dialog box is nice/good.

Oh, and patches should apply with 'patch -p1' (i.e., their filenames should
begin with linux-tree/scripts/ etc., not with scripts/*).

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~Randy
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