Bug in arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h [Was: next cleanup report: "bad" references to CONFIG variables]

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 15:22:22 EST


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:34:05AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> here's the next cleanup report that's well underway -- "bad"
> references to CONFIG variables that don't exist in any Kconfig file:
>
> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Badref_CONFIG_variables
>
> (currently, only the arch/ and drivers/ directories have been updated
> -- the rest should be done shortly.)
>
> in a nutshell, that's a list of references to variables of the form
> CONFIG_*, where there is no such variable defined anywhere in a
> Kconfig file. some possible reasons for that:
>
> 1) leftover historical cruft
> 2) simple typo
> 3) someone's added code without adding the Kconfig infrastructure
> for it (annoyingly, there appears to be quite a lot of that)
> 4) someone likes to name their macros with a "CONFIG_" prefix just
> to pollute the Kconfig namespace (argh)
>

Care to send a patch to fix the one in arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h?

> in any event, it's all there (some of it starting to look awfully
> familiar as the years go by).

> as always, ignore the false positives.
If you continue this then please filter the know false positives.
For once start ignoring defconfigs.

Sam
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