Thanks for your kind reply. Then what should I do? To officially raise a bug to all the relevant persons in the kernel community? Jessen On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:33 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 10:47:16PM +0800, li_jessen2016@xxxxxxxxx li > wrote: > > > FAIL: alsa/Makefile dependency check: $(shell > > FAIL: alsa/Makefile dependency check: pkg-config > > .. > > > So I wonder why the FAIL info appears in the presence of *$(shell > > pkg-config --libs alsa) *in alsa/Makefile. Is it some sort of bug or > > did I miss something? > > I think that's a bug in this tool you're running - it's not > understanding the $(shell ...) and generating false positives, not 100% > sure what it's trying to do but it's fairly clearly parsing every > element in the statement as a dependency of some kind. >