kconfig: add helper to set config symbol from environment variable

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / scripts / kconfig / confdata.c

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index e0f402f..e4fa3f3 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -145,6 +145,33 @@ static int conf_set_sym_val(struct symbol *sym, int def, int def_flags, char *p)
        return 0;
 }
 
+/* Read an environment variable and assign the value to the symbol */
+int conf_set_env_sym(const char *env, const char *symname, int def)
+{
+       struct symbol *sym;
+       char *p;
+       int def_flags;
+
+       p = getenv(env);
+       if (p) {
+               char warning[200];
+               sprintf(warning, "Environment variable (%s = \"%s\")", env, p);
+               conf_filename = warning;
+               def_flags = SYMBOL_DEF << def;
+               if (def == S_DEF_USER) {
+                       sym = sym_find(symname);
+                       if (!sym)
+                               return 1;
+               } else {
+                       sym = sym_lookup(symname, 0);
+                       if (sym->type == S_UNKNOWN)
+                               sym->type = S_OTHER;
+               }
+               conf_set_sym_val(sym, def, def_flags, p);
+       }
+       return 0;
+}
+
 int conf_read_simple(const char *name, int def)
 {
        FILE *in = NULL;