# Copyright (c) 2011-2019, Ulf Magnusson # SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC """ Overview ======== Kconfiglib is a Python 2/3 library for scripting and extracting information from Kconfig (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt) configuration systems. See the homepage at https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib for a longer overview. Using Kconfiglib on the Linux kernel with the Makefile targets ============================================================== For the Linux kernel, a handy interface is provided by the scripts/kconfig/Makefile patch, which can be applied with either 'git am' or the 'patch' utility: $ wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/master/makefile.patch | git am $ wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/master/makefile.patch | patch -p1 Warning: Not passing -p1 to patch will cause the wrong file to be patched. Please tell me if the patch does not apply. It should be trivial to apply manually, as it's just a block of text that needs to be inserted near the other *conf: targets in scripts/kconfig/Makefile. Look further down for a motivation for the Makefile patch and for instructions on how you can use Kconfiglib without it. If you do not wish to install Kconfiglib via pip, the Makefile patch is set up so that you can also just clone Kconfiglib into the kernel root: $ git clone git://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib.git $ git am Kconfiglib/makefile.patch (or 'patch -p1 < Kconfiglib/makefile.patch') Warning: The directory name Kconfiglib/ is significant in this case, because it's added to PYTHONPATH by the new targets in makefile.patch. The targets added by the Makefile patch are described in the following sections. make kmenuconfig ---------------- This target runs the curses menuconfig interface with Python 3 (Python 2 is currently not supported for the menuconfig). make guiconfig -------------- This target runs the Tkinter menuconfig interface. Both Python 2 and Python 3 are supported. To change the Python interpreter used, pass PYTHONCMD= to 'make'. The default is 'python'. make [ARCH=] iscriptconfig -------------------------------- This target gives an interactive Python prompt where a Kconfig instance has been preloaded and is available in 'kconf'. To change the Python interpreter used, pass PYTHONCMD= to 'make'. The default is 'python'. To get a feel for the API, try evaluating and printing the symbols in kconf.defined_syms, and explore the MenuNode menu tree starting at kconf.top_node by following 'next' and 'list' pointers. The item contained in a menu node is found in MenuNode.item (note that this can be one of the constants kconfiglib.MENU and kconfiglib.COMMENT), and all symbols and choices have a 'nodes' attribute containing their menu nodes (usually only one). Printing a menu node will print its item, in Kconfig format. If you want to look up a symbol by name, use the kconf.syms dictionary. make scriptconfig SCRIPT=