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SubjectRe: kernel coding style for if ... else which cross #ifdef
Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> We do not have any serious problems where we actually depend on
> randconfig.
>
> randconfig is nice, but even if it would suddenly become no longer
> available we wouldn't have significantely more build breakages in
> stable kernels (perhaps a few more in the pathological cornercases
> only randconfig hits).
>
> If this was really "the whole point" it wasn't not worth it.
>
> Real value would come from getting errors for mistyped kconfig variable
> names.
>

Indeed. However, getting at least compiler coverage across all branches
of code is worth something, at least.

-hpa


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