linux-kernel - Re: samples: blackfin: dead config options

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Date:   Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:17:28 -0400
From:   Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:     Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Cc:     Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: samples: blackfin: dead config options

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com> wrote:
> On 10/03/2016 11:59 PM, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
>> Hi Shua,
>>
>> your commit c6d2995da540 ("samples: move blackfin gptimers-example
>> from Documentation") has popped up in today's linux-next.
>> scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py complained about two issues.
>>
>> The refactoring from build rules to Kconfig preserved the 'CONFIG_'
>> prefix (i.e., depends on CONFIG_BLACKFIN && CONFIG_BFIN_GPTIMERS...),
>> rendering SAMPLE_BLACKFIN_GPTIMERS to be dead.
>>
>> The patch also removes the option BUILD_DOCSRC, which has one leftover
>> dependency in  drivers/media/v4l2-core/Kconfig (VIDEO_PCI_SKELETON).
>>
>> Are there patches queued somewhere to address the upper issues?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>  Valentin
>>
>
> Hi Valentin,
>
> I am looking at these problems and I don't have fixes yet. I will get
> the fixes soon or pull it out of linux-next in a day r two.

In addition to what Valentin reports, it also breaks "distclean".

$ make distclean
scripts/Makefile.clean:14: Documentation/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'Documentation/Makefile'.  Stop.
Makefile:1278: recipe for target '_clean_Documentation' failed
make: *** [_clean_Documentation] Error 2

Paul.
--

>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah