linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 20/20] x86/PCI: VMD: Fix malformed Kconfig default

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Message-ID: <20180223103455.GA20461@e107981-ln.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:35:03 +0000
From:   Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/20] x86/PCI: VMD: Fix malformed Kconfig default

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 06:21:42PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:42:28AM +0100, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:00 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:11:06PM +0100, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> > >> 'default N' should be 'default n', though they happen to have the same
> > >> effect here, due to undefined symbols (N in this case) evaluating to n
> > >> in a tristate sense.
> > >>
> > >> Remove the default instead of changing it. bool and tristate symbols
> > >> implicitly default to n.
> > >
> > > s/bool/Bool/
> > 
> > Not a great excuse, but I was thinking syntactically -- 'bool' and
> > 'tristate' symbols... :)
> > 
> > >
> > >> Discovered with the
> > >> https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/blob/master/examples/list_undefined.py
> > >> script.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> > >
> > > Since only this patch was posted to linux-pci, I assume it will be merged
> > > via some other tree.
> > 
> > I didn't have a particular tree in mind for this patchset. I imagined
> > people would pick up patches into the trees where they make the most
> > sense, and only created the patchset to keep track of the patches more
> > easily. Might have created some confusion in retrospect.
> > 
> > I just did a --cc-cmd="scripts/get_maintainer.pl -i" for the
> > individual patches by the way.
> 
> OK, then either Lorenzo or I will pick it up.
> 
> It's in drivers/pci/host/, so ideally Lorenzo will take it since he
> looks after everything else in there.

Sure I will take it, thanks.

Lorenzo