From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
kbuild devel <kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild update
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:23:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070916122343.59e8885d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709160856060.20489@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:58:03 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild.
> > The shortlog below have additional details but the headlines are:
> ...
> > o add script to find unused kconfig symbols (try it!)
>
> based on my experiences with this, unless you filter carefully, you're
> going to end up with a *whack* of false positives given the number of
> developers who elect to name their local macros starting with a prefix
> of "CONFIG_". good luck dealing with *that*. :-)
box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc6> grep -r '^[ ]*#[ ]*define[ ]*CONFIG_' . | wc -l
415
bah. They're all bugs - The CONFIG_foo namespace is (should be) reserved in
kernel coding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-16 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-16 9:47 kbuild update Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-16 12:58 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-16 15:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-16 15:21 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-16 19:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-16 20:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-03 21:32 Kbuild update Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-03 21:46 ` Josh Boyer
2008-01-03 22:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 19:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-04 20:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 13:23 ` WANG Cong
2008-01-04 14:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 5:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 14:26 ` WANG Cong
2008-01-06 15:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 15:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-09 2:32 ` WANG Cong
2008-01-09 5:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-09 2:28 ` WANG Cong
2007-06-03 20:36 kbuild update Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-03 20:51 ` Sam Ravnborg
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