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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> 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=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20261109003745.GA3429615@ax162> On Sun, 08 Nov 2026, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > 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? I would've loved to keep "kconfig" in the name so that outside the kernel, it's still clear it's about a kernel .config. For example, a Debian package for this tool can be called "kconfig-checker", "kconfig-policy-checker", etc. 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. Thanks! -- Ahmed S. Darwish Linutronix GmbH