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From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
To: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Subject: kconfig: diagnostics cleanups
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:38:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <boris.20201125161355@codesynthesis.com> (raw)

I am preparing a set of patches that clean up kconfig diagnostics and
make it more consistent both internally and with respect to other
tools (like compilers). However, a couple of changes that I would like
to make could be controversial so I want to discuss them before wasting
everyone's time with patches:

1. Add 'warning' word to $(warning-if) output:

-  fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d: %s\n", ...);
+  fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d: warning: %s\n", ...);

   This makes it consistent with the rest of the warnings printed by
   kconfig.

2. Print $(info) output to stderr instead of stdout.

I realize the current behavior is consistent with GNU make (on which
it is based) but at the same time it's inconsistent with the rest of
kconfig (#1) or does not seem to make much sense (#2), at least to
me.

To elaborate on #2, $(info) is still diagnostics, just a different
level compared to $(warning-if) and $(error-if). It's not clear to
me why it should go to stdout.

If we needed the ability to print something to stdout, we could add
another function, such as $(print). However, I can't think of a good
reason why we would need to; this, for example, has the potential to
mess up with the terminal-based UI (which is written to stdout).

I've done a search and as far as I can see, neither $(warning) nor
$(info) is currently used anywhere in the kernel outside the kconfig
testsuite. So these changes shouldn't have any backwards-compatibility
issues.

Thoughts?

             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-25 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-25 14:38 Boris Kolpackov [this message]
2020-12-01 14:19 ` kconfig: diagnostics cleanups Masahiro Yamada
2020-12-02  8:06   ` Boris Kolpackov
2020-12-21 10:32     ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-12-21 14:05       ` Boris Kolpackov
2020-12-22  5:49         ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-12-22 13:03           ` Boris Kolpackov

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