Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] add kconfirm

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 01:29:16PM +0100, Julian Braha wrote:
> As I've been getting more comfortable with the in-tree Kconfig
> interpreter, I've been wondering if the community might prefer the
> gradual integration of lints directly into Kconfig, instead of as a
> standalone tool. Similar to a comment by Jani on another patch [1].

Yes, I would think from a user/general developer perspective, it would
be more useful (and frankly, effective) to have these sort of
lints/checks in Kconfig directly so that they just run as part of a
normal build.

> Otherwise, I can do a round of self-review and send a v5 for this
> series. I already noticed some dumb typos in the subject lines, but any
> other feedback on v4 would be welcome if kconfirm is the preferred
> route :)

My apologies for not getting to this sooner, I have been busy with some
other projects. I will try to play around with this from a usability
perspective (which is what I am most concerned with at this point). If a
v5 is mostly prepared, I would not mind seeing it even if we want to go
the in-tree interpreter checks. One option is to take kconfirm into the
tree, fix up the warnings it generates, then moving the checks into the
interpreter directly while dropping them from kconfirm (since the tree
should be clean at that point). I am open to opinions on that though.

-- 
Cheers,
Nathan