From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net,
skhan@linuxfoundation.org, arnd@arndb.de,
stefan.hengelein@fau.de, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
nico@fluxnic.net, officialnaumansabir@gmail.com,
rdunlap@infradead.org, vegard.nossum@oracle.com, tj@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: warn users not to use select on choice options in Kconfig
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:10:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f362ddf2e0f3ecf41ed81f03f77577473c3e21bc@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4d8cb79-a696-4016-8c8a-a56b14992309@gmail.com>
On Thu, 16 Jul 2026, Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On 7/16/26 05:19, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Yeah, it'd be good to add a checkpatch or even build-time check too.
>
> I'll look into adding a check for this into the kconfig interpreter.
This. I wish there was a kconfig lint option that would whine about all
the things that kconfig-language.rst explicitly tells you *not* to use
select for. (So I could perhaps eventually stop replying to people with
that stuff.)
BR,
Jani.
--
Jani Nikula, Intel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-15 22:01 [PATCH] Documentation: warn users not to use select on choice options in Kconfig Julian Braha
2026-07-16 4:19 ` Kees Cook
2026-07-16 6:04 ` Julian Braha
2026-07-29 15:10 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2026-07-21 10:59 ` Nicolas Schier
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