Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:39:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers |
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > I'm wondering, what do you think about Vegard's 'warn about complex > selects' feature for kconfig which he submitted some time ago: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/4/13 > > That's a really sore kconfig spot we have. It's not a bug, but it > sure bites people again and again, and it would be nice to have some > built-in mechanism that gently nudges us away from complex selects. > (many of which are inadvertent or become complex after the fact)
I'll take a look at that too. We need to be careful about kicking out too many warnings. Perhaps a "make configcheck" is in order that will do various checks. This is very similar to my check for select dependency error patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/21/2
I may take a look at getting both of these in (or a merge of the two).
-- Steve
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