Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering, what do you think about Vegard's 'warn about complex 
> selects' feature for kconfig which he submitted some time ago:
> 
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/4/13
> 
> That's a really sore kconfig spot we have. It's not a bug, but it 
> sure bites people again and again, and it would be nice to have some 
> built-in mechanism that gently nudges us away from complex selects. 
> (many of which are inadvertent or become complex after the fact)

I'll take a look at that too. We need to be careful about kicking out too 
many warnings. Perhaps a "make configcheck" is in order that will do 
various checks. This is very similar to my check for select dependency 
error patch:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/21/2

I may take a look at getting both of these in (or a merge of the two).

-- Steve

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