Re: kbuild update

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Sun Sep 16 2007 - 09:00:23 EST


On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild.
> The shortlog below have additional details but the headlines are:
...
> o add script to find unused kconfig symbols (try it!)

based on my experiences with this, unless you filter carefully, you're
going to end up with a *whack* of false positives given the number of
developers who elect to name their local macros starting with a prefix
of "CONFIG_". good luck dealing with *that*. :-)

rday

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