Subject: Re: bug#54713: [PATCH] gnu: linux: Allow kconfig options to be strings
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: antlers <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:18:38 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

antlers <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (config->string): add a clause handling strings
>
> Allows for the declarative configuration of kconfig options which accept
> strings, such as CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY.
>
> I've enclosed the given string in quotes, but don't do any kind of
> escaping. See the kernel mailing list for the current state of escaped
> strings upstream:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/patch/[email-masked]/
>
> Apologies to those with double-quotes or backslashes in their
> CONFIG_SYSTEM_*_KEYS.

Applied.

If needed, a cheap and often “good enough” way to escape strings is
‘object->string’:

  (display (object->string "foo\"bar\"baz"))
  => "foo\"bar\"baz"

Would that help here?

Thanks,
Ludo’.