Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:24:12 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Bug in arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h [Was: next cleanup report: "bad" references to CONFIG variables] |
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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:34:05AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > here's the next cleanup report that's well underway -- "bad" > references to CONFIG variables that don't exist in any Kconfig file: > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Badref_CONFIG_variables > > (currently, only the arch/ and drivers/ directories have been updated > -- the rest should be done shortly.) > > in a nutshell, that's a list of references to variables of the form > CONFIG_*, where there is no such variable defined anywhere in a > Kconfig file. some possible reasons for that: > > 1) leftover historical cruft > 2) simple typo > 3) someone's added code without adding the Kconfig infrastructure > for it (annoyingly, there appears to be quite a lot of that) > 4) someone likes to name their macros with a "CONFIG_" prefix just > to pollute the Kconfig namespace (argh) >
Care to send a patch to fix the one in arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h?
> in any event, it's all there (some of it starting to look awfully > familiar as the years go by).
> as always, ignore the false positives. If you continue this then please filter the know false positives. For once start ignoring defconfigs.
Sam
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