Have load_config() and write_(min_)config() return messages

Hardcoding load_config() and write_(min_)config() to write any message
to stdout is awkward, because it means that the message can't be easily
reused when stdout is the wrong place to write it to (e.g. in
menuconfig/guiconfig). This gets extra bad now that there's also the "No
change to ..." message.

Modify load_config() and write_(min_)config() to return the message as a
string instead, and have them always return a message, instead of just
when 'filename' is None and verbose=True. This makes things flexible and
straightforward.

Use the new behavior in menuconfig.py and guiconfig.py. They now show
"No change to ..." when saving a file doesn't modify it.

Tools that want to write messages to stdout should now do
print(kconf.load_config()) / print(kconf.write_config()).

There's no clean way to preserve perfect backwards compatibility here,
but keep accepting the 'verbose' argument and print a deprecation
warning if a value is ever passed for it. That way, scripts will keep
running, though possibly with less output on stdout.

This changes the meaning of the load_config() return value as well,
though I suspect it was only ever used by the menuconfig/guiconfig
interfaces.

The new behavior applies for kconfiglib.VERSION >= (12, 0, 0).

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/savedefconfig.py b/savedefconfig.py
index 8b45fe4..c388f1a 100755
--- a/savedefconfig.py
+++ b/savedefconfig.py
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ def main():
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     kconf = kconfiglib.Kconfig(args.kconfig)
-    kconf.load_config()
-    kconf.write_min_config(args.out)
+    print(kconf.load_config())
+    print(kconf.write_min_config(args.out))
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":