Wyrfel: /* Inner Workings */

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‎Inner Workings

Wyrfel at 19:06, 22 January 2006

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This template is used to automatically determine the menuconfig path for a kernel option given as variable. It also formats the output properly and allows specification if the option should be built into the kernel, as module or not at all.

==Purpose==
The goal is to provide a template that can automatically determine the output format so that
<pre><nowiki>
standard wiki text
{{kernelconf2|Device Drivers|}}
{{kernelconf2|USB support|}}
{{kernelconf2|CONFIG_USB|m}}
{{kernelconf2|CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS|m}}</nowiki>
continuing wiki text</pre>

would result in something like:

standard wiki text
:<tt style="padding:0px;background-color:#eeeeee;">Device Drivers â†’</tt>
::<tt style="padding:0px;background-color:#eeeeee;">USB support â†’</tt>
:::<tt style="padding:0px;background-color:#eeeeee;">Support for Host-side USB</tt> <tt>(CONFIG_USB=m)</tt>
:::<tt style="padding:0px;background-color:#eeeeee;">USB device file system</tt> <tt>(CONFIG_USB_DEVICSFS=m)</tt>
continuing wiki text

and

<pre><nowiki>
standard wiki text {{kernelconf2|CONFIG_USB|m}}</nowiki> continuing wiki text</pre>

would result in

standard wiki text <tt style="padding:0px;background-color:#eeeeee;">Support for Host-side USB</tt> <tt>(CONFIG_USB=m)</tt> continuing wiki text

==Usage==
====Scheme====
<tt><nowiki>{{kernelconf2|<CONFIG-Variable>|<BuildMode>}}</nowiki></tt> with
*<tt><CONFIG-Variable></tt> being a variable name as found in the kernels {{path|.config}} file,
*<tt><BuildMode>=[y,m, ]</tt>.

====Example====
<tt><nowiki>:{{kernelconf2|CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD|m}}</nowiki></tt> shows as

:{{kernelconf2|CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD|m}}

==Inner Workings==
The template calls [[:Template:kc]] where the bigger part of the logic happens. This template only sets all the possible parameters (which match all kernel config variable names) to the empty string (which is necessary because of MediaWikis suboptimal parsing behavior). Finally, the parameter (variable name) given ain the first parameter value of the template call is assigned the value 2. All other parameters are just forwarded to [[:Template:kc]], thereby naming them so they get position independent for further processing.

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−	The template calls [[:Template:kc]] where the bigger part of the logic happens. This template only sets all the possible parameters (which match all kernel config variable names) to the empty string (which is necessary because of MediaWikis suboptimal parsing behavior). Finally, the parameter (variable name) given ain the first parameter value of the template call is assigned the value 2. All other parameters are just forwarded to [[:Template:kc]], thereby naming them so they get position independent for further processing.	+	The template calls [[:Template:kc2]] where the bigger part of the logic happens. This template only sets all the possible parameters (which match all kernel config variable names) to the empty string (which is necessary because of MediaWikis suboptimal parsing behavior). Finally, the parameter (variable name) given ain the first parameter value of the template call is assigned the value 2. All other parameters are just forwarded to [[:Template:kc2]], thereby naming them so they get position independent for further processing.

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Wyrfel: /* Inner Workings */

Wyrfel at 19:06, 22 January 2006