Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig symbol clean-up on ./arch/mips/

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:16:33PM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Dear Thomas,
> 
> The script ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns on invalid references to
> Kconfig symbols (often, minor typos, name confusions or outdated references).
> This is a patch series addressing the issues reported by
> ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py in the ./arch/mips/ directory, quickly
> filtered down with:
> 
>   ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py | grep "arch/mips" -B 1
> 
> without considering kernel configs, i.e., after removing ./arch/mips/configs
> in the working tree. It addresses all issues I considered to be "true
> positives"; so, issues that should be addressed and cleaned up. 
> 
> The patches on updating the comments might arguably be considered of lower
> value by itself, but as the other patches show, checkkconfigsymbols does detect
> some relevant issues in the kernel tree otherwise being unnoticed.
> So, it might be worth to clean up the kernel tree to have checkkconfigsymbols
> produce a rather short list of issues and then continuously follow and check
> what checkkconfigsymbols reports.
> 
> These are the remaining reports from checkkconfigsymbols in ./arch/mips, which
> are not addressed in this series:
> 
>   SGI_IP35
>   Referencing files: arch/mips/include/asm/sn/addrs.h, arch/mips/include/asm/sn/agent.h, arch/mips/include/asm/sn/klconfig.h
> 
>   Rationale: Ralf Baechle rejected a patch to remove the "upstream-dead"
>   SGI_IP35 code in 2014, because there was still some out-of-tree users.
>   We might want to recheck if these out-of-tree users still exist or if this
>   code can be dropped now.
>   See email discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1400584909.4912.35.camel@x220/T/#mf1d73d4f531bab670beb30aa0adfce34cbcad528
> 
>   SHELL
>   Referencing files: arch/mips/Makefile, arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/Makefile
> 
>   Rationale: Ignore CONFIG_SHELL. Default variable in Kbuild build system.
> 
> 
> Each patch in this series can be discussed and applied individually. They are
> sent in one patch series, as they all orginate from the investigation guided
> by the same tool and hence share similar topics and resolutions.
> 
> Please pick this series of minor clean-up patches on ./arch/mips/. It applies
> cleanly on next-20211210. The patches with Fixes: tags might be considerable
> for stable.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lukas
> 
> 
> Lukas Bulwahn (9):
>   mips: drop selecting the non-existing config SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK_8250
>   mips: add SYS_HAS_CPU_MIPS64_R5 config for MIPS Release 5 support
>   mips: drop selecting non-existing config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_2
>   mips: dec: provide the correctly capitalized config CPU_R4X00 in init
>     error message
>   mips: kgdb: adjust the comment to the actual ifdef condition
>   mips: remove obsolete selection of CPU_HAS_LOAD_STORE_LR
>   mips: alchemy: remove historic comment on gpio build constraints
>   mips: txx9: remove left-over for removed TXX9_ACLC configs
>   mips: fix Kconfig reference to PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> 
>  arch/mips/Kconfig                  |  9 +++++----
>  arch/mips/alchemy/common/gpiolib.c |  2 --
>  arch/mips/dec/prom/init.c          |  2 +-
>  arch/mips/include/asm/kgdb.h       |  2 +-
>  arch/mips/txx9/Kconfig             |  3 ---
>  arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c     | 28 ----------------------------
>  6 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.26.2

applied patches 2-8 to mips-next.

Thomas.

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good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]



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