Re: [PATCH] Documentation: warn users not to use select on choice options in Kconfig

Jani Nikula <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:10:04 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kbuild.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.documentation
Organization Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - c/o Alberga Business Park, 6 krs Bertel Jungin Aukio 5, 02600 Espoo, Finland
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 16 Jul 2026, Julian Braha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On 7/16/26 05:19, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Yeah, it'd be good to add a checkpatch or even build-time check too.
>
> I'll look into adding a check for this into the kconfig interpreter.

This. I wish there was a kconfig lint option that would whine about all
the things that kconfig-language.rst explicitly tells you *not* to use
select for. (So I could perhaps eventually stop replying to people with
that stuff.)

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel