linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kconfig: add unexpected data itself to warning

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Message-ID: <20160510152114.GA13314@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 10 May 2016 17:21:14 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kconfig: add unexpected data itself to warning

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:20:17PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On wo, 2016-03-16 at 21:27 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > If the .config parser runs into unexpected data it emits warnings
> > like:
> >     .config:6911:warning: unexpected data
> > 
> > Add the unexpected data itself to this warning. That makes it easier to
> > discover what is actually going wrong:
> >      .config:6911:warning: unexpected data: CONFOG_CHARGER_TPS65217=m
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
> > ---
> > This v2 uses strcspn, as Michal suggesed. That turns a two patch series into a
> > more elegant oneliner. It apparently pays off to know what string.h has to
> > offer!
> 
> Nothing happened after I sent v2, as far as I can tell. Did this
> oneliner fall through the cracks? 

The kbuild maintainer has fallen through cracks for a while ;). Applied
to kbuild.git#kconfig now.

Michal