[U-Boot] very short list of "badref selects" in u-boot source

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   rather than go to the trouble of whipping up a wiki page, i can
> present this in a short post to the list. here's the list of what my
> script identified as "badref selects" -- those identifiers for which
> there is a Kconfig line of the form:
>
>   select X
>
> where there is no corresponding:
>
>   config X
>
> the entire list:
>
> >>>>> BOOTM_LINUX
> >>>>> CONFIG_EHCI_HCD_INIT_AFTER_RESET
> >>>>> CONFIG_MPC8xx_WATCHDOG
> >>>>> CPU_ARM926EJS1
> >>>>> CRC32
> >>>>> GPIO
> >>>>> MSCC_BITBANG_SPI_GPIO
> >>>>> SPL_DISABLE_OF_CONTROL
> >>>>> VEXPRESS_CLK

... snip ...

  between a couple patches i sent in and the more extensive
submissions from chris packham, most of this list has been resolved
except for three of them. a couple are isolated but i'm not sure what
to do with them:

$ git grep MSCC_BITBANG_SPI_GPIO
arch/mips/mach-mscc/Kconfig:    select MSCC_BITBANG_SPI_GPIO
$

and:

$ git grep VEXPRESS_CLK
drivers/video/Kconfig:  select VEXPRESS_CLK
$

but it's BOOTM_LINUX that i'm unsure of:

$ git grep BOOTM_LINUX
common/bootm_os.c:#ifdef CONFIG_BOOTM_LINUX
include/config_defaults.h:#define CONFIG_BOOTM_LINUX 1
include/configs/xilinx_versal_mini.h:#undef CONFIG_BOOTM_LINUX
include/configs/xilinx_zynqmp_mini.h:#undef CONFIG_BOOTM_LINUX
include/configs/zynq_cse.h:#undef CONFIG_BOOTM_LINUX
lib/optee/Kconfig:      select BOOTM_LINUX
scripts/config_whitelist.txt:CONFIG_BOOTM_LINUX
$

  it's clear that CONFIG_BOOTM_LINUX is simply defined as a hard-coded
macro in some header files, so what does it then mean if a Kconfig
file selects it? i've never checked what the Kbuild infrastructure
does in a case like that -- would it actually define
CONFIG_BOOTM_LINUX, despite the fact that there is no associated
BOOTM_LINUX Kbuild option? in any event, it's definitely messy.

  anyway, those are the remnants of "select" directives referring to
non-existent Kbuild options.

rday

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