linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers

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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:39:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tytso@....edu,
	arjan@...radead.org, greg@...ah.com, mcgrof@...il.com,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	sam@...nborg.org, corbet@....net, sourcejedi.lkml@...glemail.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers


On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering, what do you think about Vegard's 'warn about complex 
> selects' feature for kconfig which he submitted some time ago:
> 
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/4/13
> 
> That's a really sore kconfig spot we have. It's not a bug, but it 
> sure bites people again and again, and it would be nice to have some 
> built-in mechanism that gently nudges us away from complex selects. 
> (many of which are inadvertent or become complex after the fact)

I'll take a look at that too. We need to be careful about kicking out too 
many warnings. Perhaps a "make configcheck" is in order that will do 
various checks. This is very similar to my check for select dependency 
error patch:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/21/2

I may take a look at getting both of these in (or a merge of the two).

-- Steve

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