scripts/diffconfig
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/diffconfig
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/diffconfig- Extension
[no extension]- Size
- 4222 bytes
- Lines
- 145
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- scripts
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: scripts
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# diffconfig - a tool to compare .config files.
#
# originally written in 2006 by Matt Mackall
# (at least, this was in his bloatwatch source code)
# last worked on 2008 by Tim Bird
#
import sys, os
def usage():
print("""Usage: diffconfig [-h] [-m] [<config1> <config2>]
Diffconfig is a simple utility for comparing two .config files.
Using standard diff to compare .config files often includes extraneous and
distracting information. This utility produces sorted output with only the
changes in configuration values between the two files.
Added and removed items are shown with a leading plus or minus, respectively.
Changed items show the old and new values on a single line.
If -m is specified, then output will be in "merge" style, which has the
changed and new values in kernel config option format.
If no config files are specified, .config and .config.old are used.
Example usage:
$ diffconfig .config config-with-some-changes
-EXT2_FS_XATTR n
CRAMFS n -> y
EXT2_FS y -> n
LOG_BUF_SHIFT 14 -> 16
PRINTK_TIME n -> y
""")
sys.exit(0)
# returns a dictionary of name/value pairs for config items in the file
def readconfig(config_file):
d = {}
for line in config_file:
line = line[:-1]
if line[:7] == "CONFIG_":
name, val = line[7:].split("=", 1)
d[name] = val
if line[-11:] == " is not set":
d[line[9:-11]] = "n"
return d
def print_config(op, config, value, new_value):
global merge_style
if merge_style:
if new_value:
if new_value=="n":
print("# CONFIG_%s is not set" % config)
else:
print("CONFIG_%s=%s" % (config, new_value))
else:
if op=="-":
print("-%s %s" % (config, value))
elif op=="+":
print("+%s %s" % (config, new_value))
else:
print(" %s %s -> %s" % (config, value, new_value))
def show_diff():
global merge_style
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / scripts.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.