[PATCH 2/3] buildman: Detect Kconfig loops

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Oct 21 18:09:56 CEST 2021


Hi Tom,

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 06:13, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 09:43:24PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > Hex and int Kconfig options are supposed to have defaults. This is so we
> > can configure U-Boot without having to enter particular values for the
> > items that don't have specific values in the board's defconfig file.
>
> That's not true.  All symbols that we can make reasonable defaults for
> get them.  It's just that for boolean n is a reasonable default.
> int/hex often just need to be entered, period.
>
> Everything else is fine however, thanks for digging in to this.

I got that from there and it made sense as to why we have this problem:

https://docs.zephyrproject.org/2.4.0/guides/kconfig/tips.html#redundant-defaults

But I think you are right if we should update the commit message here
to avoid confusion. Shall I send v2?

Regards,
Simon


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