linux-kernel - Re: identifying CONFIG variable typoes in the source tree

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Message-ID:  <slrnerd7e8.e7s.olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:35:31 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: identifying CONFIG variable typoes in the source tree

On 2007-01-23, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
[]
>   what it does is scan the entire tree for lines of the form
>
> ...if... CONFIG_whatever...
>
> collects all of those CONFIG variables and, one at a time, checks to
> see if that variable even exists in any Kconfig file in the tree so
> that it could possibly ever be set.  (i'm not guaranteeing that the
> script is perfect, but it does generate some interesting results.)
>
>   the first few lines of output:
>
> 53C700_BE_BUS
> 64_BIT
> 68328_SERIAL_UART2
> ...
>
[]
>   the script turns up 284 examples of this.

Next, this script must to learn how to search whom to send this info.
And if there's nobody, just to make list of known orphans ;).

> rday

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