From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5BC9282F3A; Thu, 14 May 2026 16:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1778774503; cv=none; b=ItQmMq7ami6JXtg6o7z2Uy4LLe0hjkkqDSpViIJ+JWA+Tog+vFLhWE1E7faqPiInyZdVJglgoEjNY6ND/eeb0UR4KfjMwyQcJDC/Jp4I1gLQHLJLxd48MWwYDHov6QIkEP3IlJtgfo5tThdk83J/FywDoujNCY+jh1VmLbGF5h4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1778774503; c=relaxed/simple; bh=NwiqWl07mMFzTIpcBLHSV/jNNYcGeaGAae+sSXAbZzM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=LmORrWvB4PMGCt3XSdZVhGkj2RKd9KHyq8c5jOxbDQNzEfrcsYBGd8OpRImtDSxZyr8qfMoiAwS7FKugF+P1sBGHUXSH9Bs6kyQa+7wlva81cUdDMdaN3pneVWAt8iJDlwuXbZqVj4QGFKFnYvk8bBwaA6JsKAu3mVW46MOMDE0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=ibM6y1Kw; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="ibM6y1Kw" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CFC95C2BCB3; Thu, 14 May 2026 16:01:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1778774503; bh=NwiqWl07mMFzTIpcBLHSV/jNNYcGeaGAae+sSXAbZzM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=ibM6y1KwVQy3VzJyCivePtjEwT25FqDNjV76bB9SN/dFykRlL0P/45q/6mMcPX/+s ihQ+dBlgCu6AjX4y3cWWkwt5lfpIaXAhQ6s2PnPa/8ONc1Zfbwto7SEj4x2gCfFHyM kkYJGpvLz6eBn6tXTak+T1QWu12YuCFlqzdrLvhf0ZHT0sLXcIADx1HlWM04r1R8iI AZE2m5mj2PF6yuunrb37PpABcipWhyYM+Fbh6LjnwOfucIrU2vHueWW8Q7v4QRMUrT Fg7dRL9X9W3kIr2qifGz2kIwIP6kDatOiH7q09PpP5cEzg7iNf+71ziu2gABuRcuQP iN1oqe2Ti5s7Q== Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 01:01:39 +0900 From: Nathan Chancellor To: Julian Braha Cc: Andrew Jones , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: add kconfig-sym-check static checker Message-ID: <20260514160139.GB2229579@ax162> References: <20260513210329.637892-1-andrew.jones@linux.dev> <177876553250.305249.17848321995033732158.b4-review@b4> <6d11bbb5-4877-4707-9f98-1b6ba2744ce8@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6d11bbb5-4877-4707-9f98-1b6ba2744ce8@gmail.com> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 04:26:42PM +0100, Julian Braha wrote: > On 5/14/26 14:32, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > On Wed, 13 May 2026 16:03:29 -0500, Andrew Jones wrote: > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > >> [...] > >> > >> This new static checker is the script used for [1] with a few > >> improvements to avoid some false positives. > >> > >> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216748 [1] > >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones > > > > I think something like this is reasonable, as least until kconfirm > > is potentially ready for integration into the tree. > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/20260509203808.1142311-1-julianbraha@gmail.com/ > > > Agreed, don't let kconfirm block this. While I do have future plans to > support these same alarms in that tool, there's currently no overlap > between these two, and no ETA on that support either ;) > > Side note, this script was actually part of my inspiration to go > searching for more misusage of kconfig and build kconfirm. I also > previously cleaned up some dead code, thanks to this script: > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260309122321.1528622-1-julianbraha@gmail.com/ Thanks a lot for that additional context, especially around the lack of overlap between the two tools. This seems worth pursuing then. -- Cheers, Nathan