Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:13:14 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: kbuild update |
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:58:03AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day 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*. :-) This is useful for specific people but not for kernel janitorial fodder. As you already experience the amount of false positive are too high.
But for a developer of a module it is no deal to ignore the false positives.
It is for godd reasons not integrated in the build process.
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