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([2600:1700:566e:ba00:6d29:5fc7:266a:e62a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 00721157ae682-81e6bf58f85sm187966347b3.18.2026.07.15.23.04.38 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julian Braha Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:04:37 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: warn users not to use select on choice options in Kconfig To: Kees Cook 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 References: <20260715220149.48700-1-julianbraha@gmail.com> <202607152119.BF8E377B@keescook> Content-Language: en-US From: Julian Braha In-Reply-To: <202607152119.BF8E377B@keescook> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. - Julian Braha