Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:00:13 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Cross-referencing frenzy |
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Eric S. Raymond writes: > So. I've written a cross-reference analyzer for the configuration symbol > namespace. It's included with CML 1.2.0, which I just released. The > main reason I wrote it was to detect broken symbols. > > A symbol is non-broken when: > * It is used in either code or a Makefile > * It is set in a (CML1) configuration file > * It is either derived from other non-broken symbols > or described in Configure.help
Ouch! You've got a number of false positives here. Some that struck me:
> CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE: arch/i386/kernel/apm.c > CONFIG_DEVFS_TTY_COMPAT: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > CONFIG_DEVFS_BOOT_OPTIONS: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > CONFIG_DEVFS_DISABLE_OLD_NAMES: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > CONFIG_DEVFS_DISABLE_OLD_TTY_NAMES: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > CONFIG_DEVFS_ONLY: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > CONFIG_DEVFS: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog
These are options that used to be used, and now only reside in documentation, ChangeLogs or in comments. These should not be removed from the tree, irrespective of whether they cause your broken symbol code to detect them.
Regards,
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