From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Jesse T <mr.bossman075@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: kconfig: list unknown symbols in the old .config
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:30:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230820023057.GJ907732@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFTR8SW=csT9o6iFdaVn7L8P38xYwcf2oU0Qd762=kOtrcs7w@mail.gmail.com>
On (23/08/19 15:54), Jesse T wrote:
> > We recently were hit (unnecessarily hard) when after kernel uprev we
> > figured that something wasn't working. The root cause was a rename of
> > the CONFIG_FOO option between kernel releases, which make oldconfig
> > doesn't warn/notify about.
> >
> > Would it be possible to add either a new --listunknown mode to conf or
> > to somehow make it conf_warning("unknown symbol: %s\n", line) when it
> > reads a line from oldconf that it cannot sym_find()?
>
> This makes sense and I brought up this scenario a couple of days ago
> on a recent patch.
> I can make a patch for this if needed.
I posted an RFC patch a couple of days ago
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230817012007.131868-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org/T/#u
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-20 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-16 12:42 kconfig: list unknown symbols in the old .config Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-08-16 13:06 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-08-19 19:54 ` Jesse T
2023-08-20 2:30 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
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