The recommended way to initialize a null string is with QString(). This is there at least since Qt5.5, with is when qconf was ported to Qt5. Fix those warnings: scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc: In member function ‘void ConfigItem::updateMenu()’: scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:158:31: warning: ‘QString::null’ is deprecated: use QString() [-Wdeprecated-declarations] 158 | setText(noColIdx, QString::null); | ^~~~ In file included from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qobject.h:47, from /usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets/qwidget.h:45, from /usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets/qmainwindow.h:44, from /usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets/QMainWindow:1, from scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:9: Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc index 82773cc35d35..daa3325c0a49 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc +++ b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc @@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ void ConfigItem::updateMenu(void) if (!sym_is_changeable(sym) && list->optMode == normalOpt) { setPixmap(promptColIdx, QIcon()); - setText(noColIdx, QString::null); - setText(modColIdx, QString::null); - setText(yesColIdx, QString::null); + setText(noColIdx, QString()); + setText(modColIdx, QString()); + setText(yesColIdx, QString()); break; } expr = sym_get_tristate_value(sym); @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ void ConfigLineEdit::show(ConfigItem* i) if (sym_get_string_value(item->menu->sym)) setText(QString::fromLocal8Bit(sym_get_string_value(item->menu->sym))); else - setText(QString::null); + setText(QString()); Parent::show(); setFocus(); } -- 2.25.1