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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Christoph Egger <siccegge@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
	sameo@linux.intel.com,
	Reinhard.Tartler@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] typo in kernel source (DEBUGFS)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:01:49 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001131000350.17529@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100113131539.GA3141@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Christoph Egger wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:05:33AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   just FYI, the same information can be found where i post the output
> > from my kernel scanning scripts.  specifically, that very typo is
> > already documented here:
> >
> > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Badref_CONFIG_variables#mfd
> >
> > rday
>
> 	Jep I stumbled upon your reports while having a closer look at
> what we found. Strangely while you did find somewhere around 250
> such Issues we are at 90[0] if you count #define-ed CONFIG_* to the
> errors. I'll probably try to look at the difference between our
> results.

  regarding that last point, there's still a lot of explicit
CONFIG_-prefixed macros, which are massively discouraged since all
CONFIG_-prefixed symbols are supposed to be reserved solely for the
Kconfig namespace.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

            Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-13 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-13 11:57 [PATCH] typo in kernel source (DEBUGFS) Christoph Egger
2010-01-13 12:05 ` Robert P. J. Day
2010-01-13 13:15   ` Christoph Egger
2010-01-13 13:19     ` Robert P. J. Day
2010-01-13 15:01     ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2010-01-13 12:16 ` Robert P. J. Day
2010-01-14 10:07 ` Linus Walleij
2010-01-15 14:01   ` Jiri Kosina
2010-01-15 16:54     ` Jiri Kosina

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