From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:35442 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751467AbZHURjF (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:39:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:39:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers In-Reply-To: <20090821163220.GB20898@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20090819025634.987354707@goodmis.org> <20090820143025.7134930f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090820151326.b43038ce.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090821135249.GB30346@elte.hu> <20090821163220.GB20898@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 , linux-next@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Steven Rostedt 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