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From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: stop checking for CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:42:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363621331.1335.176.camel@x61.thuisdomein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jLfq-AqkTyoZRdcJ-S07h0pFKBXDL=KBi7-nT7NQtftKg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 15:38 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hrm, I actually think it would be better to change this to ERROR
> instead of WARN.

I figured the main reason to add this warning was to prevent people to
add dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL while you were cleaning the tree, which
could mean you had to redo patches each time that happened.

Anyhow, with EXPERIMENTAL gone, this is just one of the mistakes people
can make in using the kconfig system. I'm not sure that we should use
checkpatch to catch these. For this particular case it must also be
noted that if code gets in while still depending on EXPERIMENTAL someone
also missed that this code doesn't get build at all.


Paul Bolle


      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-18 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-16 21:30 Paul Bolle
2013-03-16 22:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-16 22:38 ` Kees Cook
2013-03-18 15:42   ` Paul Bolle [this message]

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