linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux-next] lib: Kconfig: use bool instead of boolean

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Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2015 09:59:18 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, Christoph Jaeger <cj@...ux.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Yalin Wang <yalin.wang@...ymobile.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] lib: Kconfig: use bool instead of boolean

Hi Andrew,

On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:46:57 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:37:54 +0100 Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 14:27 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > There are many uses of "boolean" in lib/Kconfig.  Converting just one
> > > of them is inefficient and odd.
> > 
> >     $ git grep -n "^\s*boolean\b" next-20150202 -- "*Kconfig*"
> >     next-20150202:drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:427:   boolean "USB Webcam function"
> >     next-20150202:lib/Kconfig:17:   boolean
> > 
> > What are Christoph and I missing here?
> 
> akpm3:/usr/src/linux-3.19-rc7> grep boolean lib/Kconfig | wc -l
> 15

All the others are changed by commit 6341e62b212a ("kconfig: use bool
instead of boolean for type definition attributes") from the kbuild
tree.  Been in linux-next since (at least) next-20150108.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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