linux-kernel - Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

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Date:	Sun, 20 May 2007 12:17:17 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> 
> Do we really need an exhaustive set of configuration combinations to
> run through Kconfig to find possible missing symbols?  Or do we need a
> Kconfig lint to find them?
> 
> If we're going to make Kconfig warn on missing symbols only when they're
> attempted to be selected, you'll have to choose one of those two options.
> Choosing none is not an option.
The best solution would be to give kconfig full knowledge of all
Kconfig files. Then the "undefined symbol" is no longer a warning
but an error.

That would require a bit of kconfig surgery that we should do one day.
But giving kconfig full knowledge would gain a lot in several scenarios.
Turning the undefined symbol to an error is just one part of it.

	Sam
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