On 7/28/21 8:37 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 17:21 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Running scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py reports several hundred (maybe thousand)[]
Kconfig symbols that are used questionably. Lots of these are false positives
but lots of the remainder could use some cleaning up.
False positive example:
XCHOFFLD_MEM
Referencing files: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mbx.c
Similar symbols: OF_PMEM, CXL_MEM, CXL_PMEM
The Referencing source file does this:
#define CONFIG_XCHOFFLD_MEM 0x3
which is legitimate, so no change is needed.
Legitimate is perhaps dubious.
It might be better if Kconfig has exclusive use of CONFIG_<foo> naming so
renaming all the other existing CONFIG_<foo> defines might be appropriate.
I would prefer that as well -- maybe 15 years ago.
But I think it's too invasive to make that change now.