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+short-description: Unstable keyval module
+authors:
+    - name: Mark Schulte, Paolo Bonzini
+      years: [2017, 2019]
+      has-copyright: false
+...
+
+# keyval module
+
+This module parses files consisting of a series of `key=value` lines.  One use
+of this module is to load kconfig configurations in meson projects.
+
+**Note**: this does not provide kconfig frontend tooling to generate a
+configuration. You still need something such as kconfig frontends (see
+link below) to parse your Kconfig files, and then (after you've
+chosen the configuration options), output a ".config" file.
+
+  [kconfig-frontends]: http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/kconfig-frontends
+
+## Usage
+
+The module may be imported as follows:
+
+``` meson
+keyval = import('unstable-keyval')
+```
+
+The following functions will then be available as methods on the object
+with the name `keyval`. You can, of course, replace the name
+`keyval` with anything else.
+
+### keyval.load()
+
+This function loads a file consisting of a series of `key=value` lines
+and returns a dictionary object.
+
+`keyval.load()` makes no attempt at parsing the values in the file.
+In particular boolean and integer values will be represented as strings,
+and strings will keep any quoting that is present in the input file.  It
+can be useful to create a [`configuration_data()`](#configuration_data)
+object from the dictionary and use methods such as `get_unquoted()`.
+
+Kconfig frontends usually have ".config" as the default name for the
+configuration file.  However, placing the configuration file in the source
+directory limits the user to one configuration per source directory.
+In order to allow separate configurations for each build directory, as is
+the Meson standard, `meson.build` should not hardcode ".config" as the
+argument to `kconfig.load()`, and should instead make the argument to
+`kconfig.load()` a [project build option](Build-options.md).
+
+* The first (and only) argument is the path to the configuration file to
+  load (usually ".config").
+
+**Returns**: a [dictionary object](Reference-manual.md#dictionary-object).