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+====== kconfig ======
+===== preface =====
+kconfig is the mechanism providing the available linux kernel configuration options. This includes the prompts shown on menuconfig, the help texts, type of data, dependencies, the menu structure, etc.
+As of linux 3.10.39 there are some 1057 Kconfig* files, controlling 14088 config options in 627 menus, so it's pretty big and confusing.
+There is some documentation inside the kernel source: Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
+The code for getting things done resides in scripts/kconfig/
+===== Why? =====
+Changes in kconfig reflect the relevant changes to kernel packaging.
+By comparison of two or more kconfig data sets it becomes clear what's new and
+what has changed.
+The prompt and help information from kconfig also eases understanding plain ''.config'' files a lot.
+===== What? =====
+The aim of this part of the project would be to convert the kconfig structure into some XML.
+XML because with XML I can easily do whatever I need to.
+===== Things =====
+  * [[project:kernel-autobuild:kconfig:structure|kconfig structure]]
+===== Currently =====
+Currently there are two efforts to get this running:
+  * [[project:kernel-autobuild:kconfig::printconf|printconf]] - utilising the lex/yacc/C code from scripts/kconfig/
+  * [[project:kernel-autobuild:kconfig::parseKconfig|parseKconfig]] - parse from scratch in perl