Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

[Valentin Rothberg]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep, at 01:59:15PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
>>
>> I have a 800 line perl monster that checks for stuff like this. It's not
>> very sophisticated but smart enough to spot typos like this one. I try
>> to have it check each linux-next (and mainline) release.
>
> Very cool.
>
>> (I think Valentin Rothberg is trying to automate this properly. See
>> http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/ocw/sessions/1863 .)
>
> Have either of you guys thought about asking for this to be included
> with the 0-day kbuild bot or submitted under scripts/?
>
> It certainly seems like a useful bit of functionality.

Yes, I was talking with Greg about including the tool in the 0-day
testing. In addition, I am working on a  patch to change the
scripts/checkkconfigsymbols script
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/22/336).

The mayor difference between my tool and the script is that the script
can only find bugs on a symbolic level (i.e., a reference on an
feature that is not defined in Kconfig). The tool that I will present
at the Plumbers Conference is additionally able to detect issue on the
logic level, for instance an #ifdef block that can never be compiled
as its precondition is contradictory. I will send some patches the
next weeks to show which bugs can be detected with the tool.

> Fengguang, the interesting bits of this thread start here,
>
>   1411730854.7866.10.camel@x220">https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411730854.7866.10.camel@x220
>
> --
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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