Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

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On 5/19/07, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:15:23 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> wrote:

> We see a lot of these lately:
>   GEN     /home/bor/build/linux-2.6.22/Makefile
> scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig
> drivers/macintosh/Kconfig:116:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'PMAC_APM_EMU' refers to undefined symbol 'SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION'
> drivers/net/Kconfig:2283:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'UCC_GETH' refers to undefined symbol 'UCC_FAST'
> drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:170:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'
> drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig:182:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'MOUSE_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'
>
>
> Do this warning really add any value or should we just ignore them like this?
>

They always indicate Kconfig bugs, don't they?  If so, we should keep the
warning.

We should also fix the Kconfig bugs but for some reason they tend to hang
around for ages and ages.

I remember coming across a thread couple weeks back that contained
patches that eliminated all four of these .. perhaps nobody picked them
up. Adding the authors of those patches to CC list (those that I
remember, at least).

(later)

I think this is the thread, in any case:

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/d46d5dcecb84424a/1b586d67a1205d86?tvc=1
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