From: Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org,
andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, rdunlap@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kconfig: add kconfig-sym-check static checker
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 00:59:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0ee7e31-0f0d-4dfa-acc4-c1822aa031da@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260519215804.84025-1-andrew.jones@linux.dev>
On 5/19/26 22:58, Andrew Jones wrote:
> The checker also warns about uppercase N/Y/M used as tristate literal
> values following the same logic as checkpatch.
Hm, I tested this out by manually adding a:
```
config KCONFIG_SYM_TEST
default Y
```
to the end of the root Kconfig file, but the script didn't actually
catch it. The hint about casing only appeared with the 'N'.
Could this be a bug, or is the Y symbol actually defined somewhere...?
- Julian Braha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-19 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-19 21:58 [PATCH v2] kconfig: add kconfig-sym-check static checker Andrew Jones
2026-05-19 23:59 ` Julian Braha [this message]
2026-05-20 0:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-05-20 13:19 ` Andrew Jones
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