linux-kernel - Re: kernel coding style for if ... else which cross #ifdef

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Message-ID: <483A0404.6030301@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 25 May 2008 17:27:48 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Tom Spink <tspink@...il.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel coding style for if ... else which cross #ifdef

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> We do not have any serious problems where we actually depend on 
> randconfig.
> 
> randconfig is nice, but even if it would suddenly become no longer 
> available we wouldn't have significantely more build breakages in 
> stable kernels (perhaps a few more in the pathological cornercases
> only randconfig hits).
> 
> If this was really "the whole point" it wasn't not worth it.
> 
> Real value would come from getting errors for mistyped kconfig variable 
> names.
> 

Indeed.  However, getting at least compiler coverage across all branches 
of code is worth something, at least.

	-hpa
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