Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] tools: Introduce a kernel configuration checker

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Nov 08, 2026 at 06:59:26PM +0000, Julian Braha wrote:
> I think the name will cause confusion.
> 
> We already have some "kconfig checkers" in-tree, like
> scripts/kconfig-sym-check.pl
> 
> But actually, your tool is quite unrelated, because that one checks
> 'Kconfig' source files, while yours checks the user's '.config' file.
> 
> This has already caused some confusion in the past, for example in this
> thread [2], someone misunderstood which one 'kconfig-sym-check'
> actually checks.
> 
> In addition to .config vs Kconfig, the name is similar to
> 'kconfig-sym-check', but is not as descriptive about *what kind* of
> checks it performs.

Yeah, I had similar thoughts when this initially appeared in my inbox.
As you mentioned in your email, this is basically a policy checker (“we
need these configuration options enabled or disabled to meet our
requirements”), so maybe config-policy-checker or something like that
would be clearer?

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Cheers,
Nathan