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[PATCH] gnu: linux: Allow kconfig options to be strings

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: antlers <autumnalantlers <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54713-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54713: [PATCH] gnu: linux: Allow kconfig options to be strings
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:18:38 +0200

Hi,

antlers <autumnalantlers <at> gmail.com> 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/1431003982-992-1-git-send-email-sr <at> denx.de/
>
> 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’.

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