Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755741Ab0AMPCg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:02:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755642Ab0AMPCf (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:02:35 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:44694 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755488Ab0AMPCe (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:02:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:01:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Christoph Egger cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Walleij , sameo@linux.intel.com, Reinhard.Tartler@informatik.uni-erlangen.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] typo in kernel source (DEBUGFS) In-Reply-To: <20100113131539.GA3141@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Message-ID: References: <20100113115712.GA7398@faui49.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20100113131539.GA3141@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1561 Lines: 40 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. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- 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/