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Andrew Jones
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Add 'make kconfig-sym-check', a static checker that finds Kconfig symbols referenced in expressions (select, depends on, default, etc.) but never defined via config/menuconfig anywhere in the tree. New dangling symbols are reported as errors (exit 1) unless they are listed in an exclusion file, e.g. KCONFIG_SYM_CHECK_EXCLUDES=sym-check-excludes make kconfig-sym-check The exclusion file lists one symbol per line; blank lines and lines starting with '#' are ignored. The checker also warns about uppercase N/Y/M used as tristate literal values following the same logic as checkpatch. This new static checker is the script used for [1] with a few improvements to avoid some false positives. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216748 [1] Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-6 Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Julian Braha <julianbraha@gmail.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260527142703.107110-1-andrew.jones@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>