From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: apw@canonical.com, dwaipayanray1@gmail.com,
lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com,
julianbraha@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] checkpatch: warn on uppercase N/Y/M as Kconfig tristate literals
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 07:47:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <de1243384c125215c26d60b954c2e745eda8822c.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260527142538.107022-1-andrew.jones@linux.dev>
On Wed, 2026-05-27 at 09:25 -0500, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Kconfig tristate literals are always lowercase ('n', 'y', 'm') and
> uppercase N/Y/M are not Kconfig reserved words. Since undefined
> symbols evaluate to 'n', writing 'default Y' or 'default M' silently
> produces 'n' instead of 'y'/'m'. 'default N' happens to produce the
> right value but is still invalid syntax.
[]
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216748 [1]
Unless I misread the bug report:
All this for something that happened once and
when it happened was benign?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-27 14:47 UTC|newest]
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2026-05-27 14:25 Andrew Jones
2026-05-27 14:47 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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