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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Bug in arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h [Was: next cleanup report:  "bad" references to CONFIG variables]
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:24:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090625192412.GA15823@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906251028270.24694@localhost>

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:34:05AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   here's the next cleanup report that's well underway -- "bad"
> references to CONFIG variables that don't exist in any Kconfig file:
> 
>   http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Badref_CONFIG_variables
> 
> (currently, only the arch/ and drivers/ directories have been updated
> -- the rest should be done shortly.)
> 
>   in a nutshell, that's a list of references to variables of the form
> CONFIG_*, where there is no such variable defined anywhere in a
> Kconfig file.  some possible reasons for that:
> 
>   1) leftover historical cruft
>   2) simple typo
>   3) someone's added code without adding the Kconfig infrastructure
>      for it (annoyingly, there appears to be quite a lot of that)
>   4) someone likes to name their macros with a "CONFIG_" prefix just
>      to pollute the Kconfig namespace (argh)
> 

Care to send a patch to fix the one in arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h?

> in any event, it's all there (some of it starting to look awfully
> familiar as the years go by).

>  as always, ignore the false positives.
If you continue this then please filter the know false positives.
For once start ignoring defconfigs.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-25 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-25 14:34 next cleanup report: "bad" references to CONFIG variables Robert P. J. Day
2009-06-25 19:24 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-06-25 19:27   ` Bug in arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h [Was: next cleanup report: "bad" references to CONFIG variables] Robert P. J. Day
2009-06-25 20:44     ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-25 21:43   ` Robert P. J. Day

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