Re: [PATCH] arch/Kconfig: fix dead conditions by removing dead options

[Julian Braha]

On 7/31/26 11:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026, at 23:05, Julian Braha wrote:
>> These two 'int' options:
>>
>> ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
>> ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
>>
>> are used directly as conditions for defaults. 'int' options should not be
>> used as conditions, because they will always evaluate to false.
>>
>> Let's remove these options, because they are not used anywhere else.
>>
>> This dead code was found by kconfirm, a static analysis tool for Kconfig.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julian Braha <julianbraha@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Sorry to bother, but whose tree would this patch go into?

I'd like to add some type checking into Kconfig, but I need to wait
until this patch is merged before making this a hard error.

- Julian Braha