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Darwish" To: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Julian Braha , Clark Williams , Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , Nicolas Schier , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Frederic Weisbecker , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jonathan Corbet , John Ogness , Derek Barbosa , Zbigniew =?utf-8?Q?J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= , Daan De Meyer , Luca Boccassi , linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arighi@nvidia.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] tools: Introduce a kernel configuration checker Message-ID: References: <20261106091922.7560-1-darwi@linutronix.de> <20261109003745.GA3429615@ax162> <20261109165230.GC1608140@ax162> X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20261109165230.GC1608140@ax162> On Mon, 09 Nov 2026, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 05:15:20PM +0100, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > > > What about kconfig-audit? Something like: > > > > ./tools/kconfig-audit/audit.py -c .config -p preempt_rt > > > > make POLICY=preempt_rt auditconfig > > > > config-policy-checker does sound good, but it feels verbose. > > > > Feedback appreciated. > > Yeah, config-policy-checker is a little verbose and might not translate > into make rules well. kconfig-audit does not sound bad to me, especially > with the rename of RULES to POLICY; at the very least, it is on the > right track. > Thanks! Then, kconfig-audit it is. -- Ahmed S. Darwish Linutronix GmbH