Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:01:49 -0500 (EST) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] typo in kernel source (DEBUGFS) |
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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:05:33AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > just FYI, the same information can be found where i post the output > > from my kernel scanning scripts. specifically, that very typo is > > already documented here: > > > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Badref_CONFIG_variables#mfd > > > > rday > > Jep I stumbled upon your reports while having a closer look at > what we found. Strangely while you did find somewhere around 250 > such Issues we are at 90[0] if you count #define-ed CONFIG_* to the > errors. I'll probably try to look at the difference between our > results.
regarding that last point, there's still a lot of explicit CONFIG_-prefixed macros, which are massively discouraged since all CONFIG_-prefixed symbols are supposed to be reserved solely for the Kconfig namespace.
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