[PATCH 8/8] cmd: config: allow simple filtering of output

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 07:15:35PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

> When doing development, it can be quite useful to enable
> CONFIG_CMD_CONFIG, so that one can always check whether a config knob
> one has just enabled has actually made it to target.
> 
> Because sometimes, one doesn't flash the right binary, or maybe one
> has just done CONFIG_FOO=y in some config fragment, but that had no
> effect because one would also have to do CONFIG_BAR=y.
> 
> However, 2400+ lines of text are rather hard to read through. One
> probably uses a terminal emulator with capturing enabled, but
> searching back through the capture file is a little tedious, and one
> easily ends up finding something that doesn't pertain to the most
> recent 'config' command invocation.
> 
> So make it possible to limit the output to those lines containing a
> given string. Like the search functionality in menuconfig, make it
> case insensitive, because it is much more convenient to type "config
> pinctrl" than "config PINCTRL".
> 
> Since enabling CONFIG_CMD_CONFIG by itself adds over 10K of data, and
> that increases with every U-Boot release even if one doesn't add any
> new features to one's own defconfig (because the .config grows lots of
> "is not set"), I don't see any point in guarding this by some
> CONFIG_CMD_CONFIG_GREP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv at rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> ---
>  cmd/config.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reasonable addition and explanation (and having switched to tmux from
screen, I don't have an easy capture anymore, the one regret I have) so
this is very useful. My only feedback is that you should add
doc/usage/cmd/config.rst now too.

-- 
Tom
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