linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: support W=c and W=e shorthands for Kconfig

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Message-ID: <20231130001524.GA2513828@dev-arch.thelio-3990X>
Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:15:24 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: support W=c and W=e shorthands for Kconfig

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 06:05:40PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> KCONFIG_WARN_UNKNOWN_SYMBOLS=1 and KCONFIG_WERROR=1 are descriptive
> and suitable in scripting, but it is tedious to type them from the
> command line.
> 
> Associate them with KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN (and the W= shorthand).
> 
> Support a new letter 'c' for KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN to enable extra checks
> in Kconfig. You can still manage compiler warnings (W=1) and Kconfig
> warnings (W=c) independently.
> 
> Reuse the letter 'e' to turn Kconfig warnings into errors.
> 
> As usual, you can combine multiple letters in KCONFIG_EXTRA_WARN.
> 
>   $ KCONFIG_WARN_UNKNOWN_SYMBOLS=1 KCONFIG_WERROR=1 make defconfig
> 
> can be shortened to:
> 
>   $ KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN=ce make defconfig
> 
> or, even shorter:
> 
>   $ make W=ce defconfig
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>

Seems reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>

> ---
> 
>  Makefile                   | 10 ++++++++++
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn |  9 ---------
>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile   |  8 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index f128a1a1b1a0..91947f722b77 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -155,6 +155,15 @@ endif
>  
>  export KBUILD_EXTMOD
>  
> +# backward compatibility
> +KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN ?= $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)
> +
> +ifeq ("$(origin W)", "command line")
> +  KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN := $(W)
> +endif
> +
> +export KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN
> +
>  # Kbuild will save output files in the current working directory.
>  # This does not need to match to the root of the kernel source tree.
>  #
> @@ -1659,6 +1668,7 @@ help:
>  	@echo  '		1: warnings which may be relevant and do not occur too often'
>  	@echo  '		2: warnings which occur quite often but may still be relevant'
>  	@echo  '		3: more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored'
> +	@echo  '		c: extra checks in the configuration stage (Kconfig)'
>  	@echo  '		e: warnings are being treated as errors'
>  	@echo  '		Multiple levels can be combined with W=12 or W=123'
>  	@$(if $(dtstree), \
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index 2fe6f2828d37..3f94915fab37 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -80,15 +80,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=designated-init)
>  # Warn if there is an enum types mismatch
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wenum-conversion)
>  
> -# backward compatibility
> -KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN ?= $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)
> -
> -ifeq ("$(origin W)", "command line")
> -  KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN := $(W)
> -endif
> -
> -export KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN
> -
>  #
>  # W=1 - warnings which may be relevant and do not occur too often
>  #
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> index 4eee155121a8..322c061b464d 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> @@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST += \
>  endif
>  KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST += arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)
>  
> +ifneq ($(findstring c, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
> +export KCONFIG_WARN_UNKNOWN_SYMBOLS=1
> +endif
> +
> +ifneq ($(findstring e, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
> +export KCONFIG_WERROR=1
> +endif
> +
>  # We need this, in case the user has it in its environment
>  unexport CONFIG_
>  
> -- 
> 2.40.1
>