linux-kernel - Re: patch suggestion: Kconfig symbols

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Message-ID: <733d2747b67a8a172333b51bacbf77fe@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:30:54 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patch suggestion: Kconfig symbols

On 2021-07-28 12:41, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 7/28/21 8:37 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 17:21 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Running scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py reports several hundred (maybe 
>>> thousand)
>>> Kconfig symbols that are used questionably. Lots of these are false 
>>> positives
>>> but lots of the remainder could use some cleaning up.
>> []
>>> False positive example:
>>> 
>>> XCHOFFLD_MEM
>>> Referencing files: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mbx.c
>>> Similar symbols: OF_PMEM, CXL_MEM, CXL_PMEM
>>> 
>>> The Referencing source file does this:
>>> #define CONFIG_XCHOFFLD_MEM	0x3
>>> 
>>> which is legitimate, so no change is needed.
>> 
>> Legitimate is perhaps dubious.
>> 
>> It might be better if Kconfig has exclusive use of CONFIG_<foo> naming 
>> so
>> renaming all the other existing CONFIG_<foo> defines might be 
>> appropriate.
> 
> I would prefer that as well -- maybe 15 years ago.
> But I think it's too invasive to make that change now.

I do not think it's that invasive.

It's something that doesn't have to be done immediately either.

It's not too many macro defines and not too many uses of those defines.