From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261898AbTIEA45 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:56:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261909AbTIEA45 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:56:57 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:48274 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261898AbTIEA4z (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:56:55 -0400 Message-ID: <32862.4.4.25.4.1062723410.squirrel@www.osdl.org> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: make checkconfig problem From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: In-Reply-To: <20030904202737.GA10691@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <20030904123452.62dd732e.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030904202737.GA10691@mars.ravnborg.org> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , , , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:34:52PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: >> >> You probably already know this... >> >> Someone mentioned to me that 'make checkconfig' isn't working. >> However, 'make checkincludes' does work. > > It had crossed my mind, and my plan was actually to get rid of them since > the scripts were not updated. Good to see you are looking into this now. They work now, and I'd like to add 'checkversion.pl' as well. > If we want to keep them in the kernel, I suggest a new naming: > configcheck: > includecheck: > > This follows the *config pattern, but suffixed with check. OK, I don't mind how they are spelled. > A tangent - could it be possible to build this into sparse instead? The plan > is to give it more kernel awareness anyway, so it should > be simple to check for the above as well. I don't know, but I'll discuss it with Dave Olien. Thanks, ~Randy