linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 21/27] treewide: surround file paths in Kconfig files with double quotes

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Message-ID: <20181211144354.GA89489@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:43:54 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/27] treewide: surround file paths in Kconfig files
 with double quotes


* Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:

> The Kconfig lexer supports special characters such as '.' and '/' in
> the parameter context. In my understanding, the reason is just to
> support bare file paths in the source statement.
> 
> I do not see a good reason to complicate Kconfig for the room of
> ambiguity.
> 
> The majority of code already surround file paths with double quotes,
> and it makes sense since the included file paths are constant string
> literals.
> 
> Make it treewide consistent now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

Thanks for doing all this Kconfig language work!

Thanks,

	Ingo