linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Avoid duplicate Kconfig inclusion

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Message-ID: <87edrxgk25.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Sat, 14 Jan 2023 09:25:22 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Avoid duplicate Kconfig inclusion

Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com> writes:

> Documentation/Kconfig is already included from lib/Kconfig.debug, avoid
> including it again and polluting the top-level menu.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
> ---
>  Kconfig | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
> index 745bc773f5670..97ed6389c9211 100644
> --- a/Kconfig
> +++ b/Kconfig
> @@ -28,5 +28,3 @@ source "crypto/Kconfig"
>  source "lib/Kconfig"
>  
>  source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
> -
> -source "Documentation/Kconfig"
>

The duplicate inclusion does seem worth fixing, but I wonder if you're
deleting the right one?  Having the documentation Kconfig under lib
seems a bit strange, somehow; Documentation/ is a top-level directory,
after all.

Thanks,

jon