From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
peterz@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
tytso@mit.edu, arjan@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com,
mcgrof@gmail.com, zippel@linux-m68k.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org, corbet@lwn.net,
sourcejedi.lkml@googlemail.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:39:02 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908211309020.30182@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821163220.GB20898@elte.hu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-19 2:56 [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 01/14] kconfig: add streamline_config.pl to scripts Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 02/14] kconfig: make localmodconfig to run streamline_config.pl Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 03/14] kconfig: add make localyesconfig option Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 04/14] kconfig: streamline_config.pl do not stop with no depends Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 05/14] kconfig: do not warn about modules built in Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 06/14] kconfig: enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG from streamline_config.pl Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 07/14] kconfig: add check if end exists in extract-ikconfig Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 08/14] kconfig: have extract-ikconfig read ELF files Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 09/14] kconfig: keep config.gz around even if CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not set Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 10/14] kconfig: search for a config to base the local(mod|yes)config on Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 11/14] kconfig: unset IKCONFIG_PROC and clean up nesting Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 12/14] kconfig: test for /boot/config-uname after /proc/config.gz in localconfig Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 13/14] kconfig: make local .config default for streamline_config Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 2:56 ` [PATCH 14/14] kconfig: test if a .config already exists Steven Rostedt
2009-08-19 14:29 ` [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers Greg KH
2009-08-20 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-20 21:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-20 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-21 13:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 15:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 16:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 17:39 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2009-08-21 21:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-08-21 9:21 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 14:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 14:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 14:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 16:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 16:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 16:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 16:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 19:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 20:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 20:32 ` Greg KH
2009-08-21 20:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 20:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 20:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 21:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 21:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 16:52 ` [PATCH] kconfig: add missing dependency of conf to localyesconfig Steven Rostedt
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