Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764972AbXESWSF (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 18:18:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757178AbXESWR4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 18:17:56 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:18138 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756529AbXESWRz (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 18:17:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eQXSmDIzapCFV+xxib9O1YIhHblidOIzOYtqLxhhZUczdb+hz2myb6V1v+LPkfoUbCr6HPfIpD6gu2SMb4qc8ZVfHGNGdNbb8rYXR4wsMllvDHeEuAJSL0pas6qDc+ejANa7aWAAnl71liV8538DGq5+hQ93uTBWko2wT0euVvw= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 03:47:51 +0530 From: "Satyam Sharma" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus? Cc: "Sam Ravnborg" , LKML , "Roman Zippel" , "Kumar Gala" , "Simon Horman" In-Reply-To: <20070519110944.2a52061e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070519151523.GA26724@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070519110944.2a52061e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1721 Lines: 36 On 5/19/07, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:15:23 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > We see a lot of these lately: > > GEN /home/bor/build/linux-2.6.22/Makefile > > scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig > > drivers/macintosh/Kconfig:116:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'PMAC_APM_EMU' refers to undefined symbol 'SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION' > > drivers/net/Kconfig:2283:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'UCC_GETH' refers to undefined symbol 'UCC_FAST' > > drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:170:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE' > > drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig:182:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'MOUSE_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE' > > > > > > Do this warning really add any value or should we just ignore them like this? > > > > They always indicate Kconfig bugs, don't they? If so, we should keep the > warning. > > We should also fix the Kconfig bugs but for some reason they tend to hang > around for ages and ages. I remember coming across a thread couple weeks back that contained patches that eliminated all four of these .. perhaps nobody picked them up. Adding the authors of those patches to CC list (those that I remember, at least). (later) I think this is the thread, in any case: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/d46d5dcecb84424a/1b586d67a1205d86?tvc=1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/