linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: WERROR unmet symbol dependency

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Message-ID: <20240102011830.GB21409@google.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 10:18:30 +0900
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
	Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@...gle.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: WERROR unmet symbol dependency

On (23/12/29 22:41), Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > > We do exit(1) for KCONFIG_WARN_UNKNOWN_SYMBOLS in conf_read().
> > > >
> > > > I can introduce two new helpers that will tell if confdata.c and symbol.c
> > > > triggered any warnings and if KCONFIG_WERROR is set. And then different
> > > > code paths can call them and handle exit gracefully, depending on the
> > > > context (ncurses, menu, etc.).
> > > >
> > > > Something like this
> > >
> > >
> > > I do not want to patch warnings one by one.
> > >
> > >
> > > I will take some time to think about it.
> >
> > Gentle ping on this.
> >
> > We are not concerned with every possible warning at the moment, however,
> > we do want the critical ones from CI and (semi)automated continuous uprev
> > PoV to be covered by WERROR. We do experience real life problems with
> > "missing direct dependency" not being a terminal condition under WERROR.
> 
> 
> Applied to linux-kbuild.

Thanks!