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[195.23.151.163]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-49d0656e7bbsm137239825e9.10.2026.09.06.08.22.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:22:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julian Braha Message-ID: <4bdaab67-87d7-4c5c-8cb5-ac0f9add4d97@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 16:22:21 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] add kconfirm To: Nathan Chancellor Cc: nsc@kernel.org, ojeda@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jani.nikula@linux.intel.com, gary@garyguo.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, arnd@arndb.de, ljs@kernel.org, andrew.jones@linux.dev, masahiroy@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, qingfang.deng@linux.dev, demiobenour@gmail.com, ej@inai.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org References: <20260727001623.2794156-1-julianbraha@gmail.com> <51ade68e-7a0c-454e-a48a-4c72f7a730ac@gmail.com> <20260904220559.GB2787252@ax162> Content-Language: en-US From: Julian Braha In-Reply-To: <20260904220559.GB2787252@ax162> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/4/26 23:05, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > 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. > Your strategy makes sense to me. I'll send v5 then, but I'd also like to make sure that Nicolas is onboard with this idea. - Julian Braha