[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/4] Kconfig: Enable usage of escape char '\' in string values

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stefan,

On 7 May 2015 at 06:13, Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> I might have missed something, but I failed to use the escape char '\'
> in strings. To pass a printf format string like "foo %d bar\n" via
> Kconfig to the code.
>
> Right now its not possible to use the escape character '\' in Kconfig
> string values correctly to e.g. set this string value "test output\n".
> The '\n' will be converted to 'n'.
>
> The current implementation removes some of the '\' chars from the input
> string in conf_set_sym_val(). Examples:
>
> '\'     -> ''
> '\\'    -> '\'
> '\\\'   -> '\'
> '\\\\'  -> '\\'
> ...
>
> And then doubles the backslash chars in the output string in
> sym_escape_string_value(). Example:
>
> '\'     -> ''   -> ''
> '\\'    -> '\'  -> '\\'
> '\\\'   -> '\'  -> '\\'
> '\\\\'  -> '\\' -> '\\\\'
> ...
>
> As you see in these examples, its impossible to generate a single '\'
> charater in the output string as its needed for something like '\n'.
>
> This patch now changes this behavior to not drop some backslashes in
> conf_set_sym_val() and to not add new backslashes in the resulting
> output string. Removing the function sym_escape_string_value()
> completely as its not needed anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>
>  scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
>  scripts/kconfig/symbol.c   | 43 -------------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

This looks right to me. But I do see one problem - the default string
for CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT appears as:

"Autoboot in %d secondsn"

so something is still removing the \ in the Kconfig default;

[snip]

Regards,
Simon