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SubjectRe: kbuild update
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:58:03 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild.
> > The shortlog below have additional details but the headlines are:
> ...
> > o add script to find unused kconfig symbols (try it!)
>
> based on my experiences with this, unless you filter carefully, you're
> going to end up with a *whack* of false positives given the number of
> developers who elect to name their local macros starting with a prefix
> of "CONFIG_". good luck dealing with *that*. :-)

box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc6> grep -r '^[ ]*#[ ]*define[ ]*CONFIG_' . | wc -l
415

bah. They're all bugs - The CONFIG_foo namespace is (should be) reserved in
kernel coding.


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