[PATCH 3/4] MAKEALL: error out on options placed after the defconfig argument

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Feb 23 04:05:25 PST 2026


On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:52:52PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2/23/26 12:50 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:31:34PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> >> getopts stops parsing at the first non-option argument, so options
> >> like -k after the defconfig name silently end up as positional
> >> arguments. For bare defconfigs these get misinterpreted as pytest
> >> options and are silently ignored, leading to a build without the
> >> intended configuration.
> >>
> >> Detect this by checking for trailing arguments when any positional
> >> argument is a bare defconfig (not a labgrid .yaml config, where
> >> extra arguments are intentionally forwarded to pytest).
> > 
> > Can't we use getopt for MAKEALL instead of getopts? getopt just does the
> > right thing.
> 
> When using MAKEALL with a labgrid yaml instead of a defconfig, it
> derives the defconfig name and interprets the options after the yaml as
> pytest options, so use of getopt would break that.

You can use -- as final argument which stops getopt parsing.

Sascha

> 
> Cheers,
> Ahmad
> 
> > 
> > Sascha
> > 
> >>
> >> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply at anthropic.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
> >> ---
> >>  MAKEALL | 9 +++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MAKEALL b/MAKEALL
> >> index c36aed625820..dd0b7f8003cc 100755
> >> --- a/MAKEALL
> >> +++ b/MAKEALL
> >> @@ -440,6 +440,15 @@ else
> >>  
> >>  		configs+=($i)
> >>  	done
> >> +	if [ ${#pytest_opts[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
> >> +		for i in "${configs[@]}"; do
> >> +			if ! [[ $i =~ .yaml$ ]]; then
> >> +				echo "error: unexpected arguments after defconfig: ${pytest_opts[*]}" >&2
> >> +				echo "hint: place all options before the defconfig argument" >&2
> >> +				exit 1
> >> +			fi
> >> +		done
> >> +	fi
> >>  	for i in "${configs[@]}"; do
> >>  		config=$i
> >>  		if [[ $i =~ ^.*/([^/]+)/([^@]*@|)([^.]+).yaml$ ]]; then
> >> -- 
> >> 2.47.3
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> 
> 

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