Re: [PATCH 2/3] kconfig: remove undocumented type definition alias 'boolean'

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 20:16 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 12/08/2014 08:13 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 19:51 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> >> This doesn't apply on next-20141208. What tree did you base this on?
> >
> > I got it to apply on next-20141208 by dropping the hunk for
> > arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig and by making (trivial) context
> > changes to the hunks for init/Kconfig and net/Kconfig.
> >
> > (My experience with actual maintainers is that they won't bother to do
> > that. Anyhow, Kconfig is basically unmaintained. And I don't know which
> > tree one should base ones Kconfig patches on.)
> 
> Well, I guess if in doubt then this could go into Andrew's tree. :)
> 
> > I'll muddle along...

Checking this on the in tree defconfig files gave me a few hundred, it
seems, errors like:
    net/switchdev/Kconfig:7: syntax error
    net/switchdev/Kconfig:6: unknown option "boolean"
    drivers/hwmon/pmbus/Kconfig:61: syntax error
    drivers/hwmon/pmbus/Kconfig:60: unknown option "boolean"
    drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:373: syntax error
    drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:372: unknown option "boolean" 
    drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:386: syntax error
    drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:385: unknown option "boolean"
    drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:404: syntax error
    drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:403: unknown option "boolean"
    drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:418: syntax error
    drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:417: unknown option "boolean"
    make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1
    make: *** [oldconfig] Error 2

I assume these are uses of "boolean" added by trees merged in
next-20141208 after the tree that you based your patch on.

Well, it seems the treewide "boolean" cleanup should be done first.
Removing support for "boolean" could than be a second, separate step.
Just to ease review.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle