Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers

Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21T17:39:05Z

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 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