From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtprelay0219.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.219]:53565 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750860AbcDRVnf (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:43:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:43:26 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] localmodconfig: Fix parsing of Kconfig "source" statements Message-ID: <20160418174326.60d92201@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20160418202912.GA15025@f1.synalogic.ca> References: <1459619722-13695-1-git-send-email-bpoirier@suse.com> <20160408142940.6de077d5@gandalf.local.home> <20160410235234.GA13689@f1.synalogic.ca> <20160418202912.GA15025@f1.synalogic.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Benjamin Poirier Cc: Michal Marek , joeyli , "Yann E . MORIN " , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:29:12 -0700 Benjamin Poirier wrote: > On 2016/04/10 16:52, Benjamin Poirier wrote: > > On 2016/04/08 14:29, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 10:55:21 -0700 > > > Benjamin Poirier wrote: > > > > > > > The parameter of Kconfig "source" statements does not need to be quoted. > > > > The current regex causes many kconfig files to be skipped and hence, > > > > dependencies to be missed. > > > > > > > > Also fix the whitespace repeat count. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier > > > > > > Thanks for sending this. I'll apply it. Should this be marked for > > > stable? And if so, how far back? > > > > The first problem dates back to the introduction of streamline_config.pl in > > dcc6024 kconfig: add streamline_config.pl to scripts (v2.6.32-rc1) > > The second problem started with > > 19e91b6 modsign: Allow external signing key to be specified (v4.3-rc1) > > > > However, I'm not sure that adding the patch to stable is warranted. I > > considered this with regards to the problem fixed by patch 1/2. > > > > First, I searched for cases where dependency info that's currently missing > > would lead to lead to symbols being erroneously deactivated but I did not find > > any. Since these cases are not so obvious and are quite rare in general, it's > > possible that I missed one but at this stage the problem is theoretical. > > > > Second, even if there is such a case, I'm not sure that the problem is > > "critical". streamline_config.pl may output an "invalid" config because > > it misses some dependencies but the config will be fixed by the > > invocation of silentoldconfig that comes right after in the > > localmodconfig makefile rule. It might not be the config the user > > wanted, but it will be valid. > > > > However, while looking for such a case, I've noticed a few other issues in > > streamline_config.pl and I'll send more patches shortly. > > Hi Steven, > > Can you please merge these six patches (2 original + 4 followups)? > OK, I've marked them as todo. I've just come back from two weeks of conferences and I'm working on catching up. -- Steve