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

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Message-ID: <a781481a0705191517n15eefe04i5458900c6ffe782d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 20 May 2007 03:47:51 +0530
From:	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Roman Zippel" <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Kumar Gala" <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"Simon Horman" <horms@...ge.net.au>
Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

On 5/19/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:15:23 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
>
> > We see a lot of these lately:
> >   GEN     /home/bor/build/linux-2.6.22/Makefile
> > scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig
> > drivers/macintosh/Kconfig:116:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'PMAC_APM_EMU' refers to undefined symbol 'SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION'
> > drivers/net/Kconfig:2283:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'UCC_GETH' refers to undefined symbol 'UCC_FAST'
> > drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:170:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'
> > drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig:182:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'MOUSE_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'
> >
> >
> > Do this warning really add any value or should we just ignore them like this?
> >
>
> They always indicate Kconfig bugs, don't they?  If so, we should keep the
> warning.
>
> We should also fix the Kconfig bugs but for some reason they tend to hang
> around for ages and ages.

I remember coming across a thread couple weeks back that contained
patches that eliminated all four of these .. perhaps nobody picked them
up. Adding the authors of those patches to CC list (those that I
remember, at least).

(later)

I think this is the thread, in any case:

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/d46d5dcecb84424a/1b586d67a1205d86?tvc=1
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