Mike Frysinger napsal(a): > 2009/11/26 Michal Marek >> On 25.11.2009 05:48, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> If the Kconfig option causes an open() failure (like one that starts with >>> an underscore), there should be an error message shown since we're going >>> to be exiting with an error code. Otherwise, the reason for the failure >>> can really only be diagnosed with strace or something similar. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 ++ >>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c >>> index b55e72f..e2644b4 100644 >>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c >>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c >>> @@ -640,6 +640,8 @@ static int conf_split_config(void) >>> fd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644); >>> if (fd == -1) { >>> if (errno != ENOENT) { >>> + conf_warning("sym '%s' with path '%s': %s", >>> + sym->name, path, strerror(errno)); >>> res = 1; >>> break; >>> } >> I agree that there definitely needs to be some error reporting (and not >> only here but in many more places, look e.g. at conf_write() or >> conf_write_autoconf()), but why use conf_warning() for this? It will >> prefix the error message with "include/config/auto.conf:<last lineno>", >> which has nothing to do with the path that could not be opened. > > no it doesnt. it prefixes the config file name which i think is relevant. > .config:1871:warning: sym '_BF548' with path '/bf548.h': Permission denied Well, it prints either ".config" or "include/config/auto.conf", depending whether there was a successful silentoldconfig pass before and the latter file exists. But the number is the number of lines of the respective file. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html