On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 15:07, Michal Marek wrote: > 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. if you want to improve kconfig's error reporing in general, have at it, but conf_warning() appears to be the standard in confdata.c for reporting errors/warnings to stderr. your complaint applies to just about every usage of conf_warning() in confdata.c. i'm not going to create my own format and fprintf() directly to stderr. -mike -- 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