why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
cial about that module? just curious. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title

why does x86 make defconfig build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that module? just curious. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Re: why does x86 make defconfig build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 May 2007, James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 12:06 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:22:55AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: not a big deal, but is there a reason that a make defconfig on my x86 system ends up selecting and building a single

Re: why does x86 make defconfig build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 May 2007, James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 12:20 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: since this thread looks like it's going to get away from me in a hurry :-), my only point in asking was to point out that that lone module was the only thing preventing the build from

Re: undeprecate raw driver.

2007-05-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
its deprecated status. rather, remove its obsolete status and *make* it deprecated. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php

Re: undeprecate raw driver.

2007-05-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: undeprecate raw driver.

2007-05-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
all over again. happy now? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Re: undefined "pm3fb_setup()"

2007-05-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 06:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm guessing someone's already spotted this but, with "make > > allyesconfig" on x86: > > > > ... > > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 >

undefined "pm3fb_setup()"

2007-05-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e misread something. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

undefined pm3fb_setup()

2007-05-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: undefined pm3fb_setup()

2007-05-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 06:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm guessing someone's already spotted this but, with make allyesconfig on x86: ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `pm3fb_init': drivers/video

Re: Fix misspellings collected by members of KJ list.

2007-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a78c7c6d4da3849b35bd6 > > Parent: 3dde6ad8fc3939d345a3768464ecff43c91d511a > > Author: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > AuthorDate: Wed May 9 07:14:03 2007 +0200 > > Committer: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CommitDate: Wed May 9 07:14:03 200

Re: Fix misspellings collected by members of KJ list.

2007-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
: 3dde6ad8fc3939d345a3768464ecff43c91d511a Author: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] AuthorDate: Wed May 9 07:14:03 2007 +0200 Committer: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommitDate: Wed May 9 07:14:03 2007 +0200 Fix misspellings collected by members of KJ list. Fix

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
s is obsolete-enough to kill. in that case, someone really should update feature-removal-schedule.txt, which currently reads: What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 ... rday -- ========

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
currently reads: What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 ... rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:06:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup": > > > > Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) ---> > &g

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 8 2007 04:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > in my opinion, the config option "EMBEDDED" is just plain silly. as > >i mentioned earlier, there may be other reasons that people want to > >de-activat

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:06:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup": > > > > Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) ---> > &g

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup": > > Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. > > tglx > >

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup": > > Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. > > tglx > >

[PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
does not - scale well (single lock for all operations) and is more susceptible - to fragmentation. SLOB it is a great choice to reduce - memory usage and code size for embedded systems. - -endchoice - -endmenu# General setup - -config RT_MU

[PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level Space-critical features menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level Space-critical features menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've always hated that lower-level menu under General setup: Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. tglx -menuconfig EMBEDDED - bool Configure

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level Space-critical features menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've always hated that lower-level menu under General setup: Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. tglx -menuconfig EMBEDDED - bool Configure

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level Space-critical features menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 8 2007 04:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: in my opinion, the config option EMBEDDED is just plain silly. as i mentioned earlier, there may be other reasons that people want to de-activate normally selected features rather than just

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level Space-critical features menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:06:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've always hated that lower-level menu under General setup: Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) --- which buries the choice of de-selecting features to save

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level Space-critical features menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:06:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've always hated that lower-level menu under General setup: Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) --- which buries the choice of de-selecting features

why don't top-level menu entries have help info?

2007-05-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
tries also supported help info. just my $0.02. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/

Re: [PATCH] Consolidate asm/poll.h

2007-05-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e mode 100644 include/asm-generic/poll.h hey ... if *this* goes in, can i re-try the same thing with ioctl.h? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Ann

Re: [PATCH] Consolidate asm/poll.h

2007-05-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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why don't top-level menu entries have help info?

2007-05-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
my $0.02. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

[PATCH] MTD: Delete allegedly obsolete "bank_size" field of mtd_info.

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete the allegedly obsolete "bank_size" member of struct mtd_info. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- the only other references to the symbol "bank_size" in the entire tree are here: $ grep -rw bank_size * drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c:i

Re: [PATCH] KBUILD: Drop tty.h and isicom.h from include/linux/Kbuild.

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Cc: Alan Cox > > Robert P. J. Day napsal(a): > > Drop the entries for tty.h and isicom.h from the include/linux/Kbuild > > file, since "make headers_install" just generates empty files for > > them. > > > >

[PATCH] KBUILD: Drop tty.h and isicom.h from include/linux/Kbuild.

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Drop the entries for tty.h and isicom.h from the include/linux/Kbuild file, since "make headers_install" just generates empty files for them. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- i've submitted a patch to do this at least twice before. is there some re

Re: [PATCH] Rewrite the MAJOR() macro as a call to imajor().

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On May 4 2007 04:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> On May 3 2007 23:18, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> >> struct inode *i = file->f_mapping->host; > >> >> > >> >> - return i &

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Remove redundant GFP_KERNEL type flag in kmalloc().

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Please be careful to add the appropriate cc's. > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:37:22 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Remove the apparently redundant GFP_KERNEL type flag in

"KERNEL/_KERNEL/INKERNEL" macro cruft

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
d(INKERNEL) && !defined(_KERNEL)) || defined(USE_SEQ_MACROS) rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ==

Re: [PATCH] Rewrite the MAJOR() macro as a call to imajor().

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
$ grep -Erw "(imajor|iminor)" * | wc -l 350 all i was doing was standardizing the small handful of holdouts. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.p

Re: [PATCH] Rewrite the MAJOR() macro as a call to imajor().

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:23:54 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Replace the MAJOR() macro invocation with a call to the inline > > imajor() routine. > > > >

Re: [PATCH] Rewrite the MAJOR() macro as a call to imajor().

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:23:54 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replace the MAJOR() macro invocation with a call to the inline imajor() routine. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git

Re: [PATCH] Rewrite the MAJOR() macro as a call to imajor().

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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KERNEL/_KERNEL/INKERNEL macro cruft

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Remove redundant GFP_KERNEL type flag in kmalloc().

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: Please be careful to add the appropriate cc's. On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:37:22 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove the apparently redundant GFP_KERNEL type flag in the call to kmalloc(). Signed-off-by: Robert P. J

Re: [PATCH] Rewrite the MAJOR() macro as a call to imajor().

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 4 2007 04:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On May 3 2007 23:18, Andrew Morton wrote: struct inode *i = file-f_mapping-host; - return i S_ISBLK(i-i_mode) MAJOR(i-i_rdev) == LOOP_MAJOR; + return i S_ISBLK(i-i_mode

[PATCH] KBUILD: Drop tty.h and isicom.h from include/linux/Kbuild.

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Drop the entries for tty.h and isicom.h from the include/linux/Kbuild file, since make headers_install just generates empty files for them. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- i've submitted a patch to do this at least twice before. is there some reason those empty generated

Re: [PATCH] KBUILD: Drop tty.h and isicom.h from include/linux/Kbuild.

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: Cc: Alan Cox Robert P. J. Day napsal(a): Drop the entries for tty.h and isicom.h from the include/linux/Kbuild file, since make headers_install just generates empty files for them. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked

[PATCH] MTD: Delete allegedly obsolete bank_size field of mtd_info.

2007-05-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete the allegedly obsolete bank_size member of struct mtd_info. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- the only other references to the symbol bank_size in the entire tree are here: $ grep -rw bank_size * drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c:int32_t bank_size; drivers/net

dead CONFIG_ variables: th-th-that's all, folks

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
you've been a great crowd, really. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

dead CONFIG_ variables under drivers/serial/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
erial/sh-sci.c:201:#ifdef CONFIG_SH_KGDB drivers/serial/sh-sci.c:217:#endif /* CONFIG_SH_KGDB */ drivers/serial/sh-sci.c:739:#ifdef CONFIG_SH_KGDB drivers/serial/sh-sci.c:1264:#ifdef CONFIG_SH_KGDB drivers/serial/sh-sci.c:1310:#endif /* CONFIG_SH_KGDB */ rday -- ===============

dead CONFIG_ variables under drivers/pcmcia

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
PRxK == drivers/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c:108:#ifdef CONFIG_PRxK drivers/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c:545:#if defined(CONFIG_PRxK) drivers/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c:605:#endif /* CONFIG_PRxK */ rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

dead CONFIG_ variables under drivers/char

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
0,0) drivers/char/drm/r128_drm.h:267:#if CONFIG_XFREE86_VERSION < XFREE86_VERSION(4,1,0,0) drivers/char/drm/r128_drm.h:272:#if CONFIG_XFREE86_VERSION >= XFREE86_VERSION(4,1,0,0) rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and

dead CONFIG_ variable under drivers/block

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
area not remapped (CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY not set)\n", drivers/block/umem.c:1095:#ifdef CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY drivers/block/umem.c:1120:#ifdef CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training an

Remove apparently dead CONFIG_NO_ATA_LEGACY code.

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the single snippet of code conditional on the non-existent CONFIG_NO_ATA_LEGACY Kconfig variable. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- i would have mailed a note about this to the ATA maintainer but it wasn't clear who that was. this is the only dead C

Re: dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/video/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 06:40 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > $ ../dead_config.sh drivers/video > > == FB_68328_INVERT == > > drivers/video/68328fb.c:53:#if defined(CONFIG_FB_68328_INVERT) > > Can be ma

Re: dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/scsi/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:10:28AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > $ ../dead_config.sh drivers/scsi > > == ACORNSCSI_CONSTANTS == > > drivers/scsi/arm/acornscsi.c:106:#undef CONFIG_ACORNSCSI_CON

dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/video/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
664 rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?tit

dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/media/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
VI_SCATTER rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php

Re: finding your own dead "CONFIG_" variables

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > Suggest: configfiles=$(find . -name 'Kconfig*' -or -name '*defconfig*') > > > > > > Some CONFIG_ options exist that are not declared anywhere in the > >

dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/scsi/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
lse /* CONFIG_WD33C93_PIO */ drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c:297:#endif /* CONFIG_WD33C93_PIO */ drivers/scsi/wd33c93.h:193:#ifdef CONFIG_WD33C93_PIO rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Onta

dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/usb/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
CDC_DEVICE_CLASS, rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php

Re: finding your own dead "CONFIG_" variables

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ching those files. also, adding that extra check wouldn't add anything useful to the output. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http

dead CONFIG_ variables under fs/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
)+= xfs_dir2_trace.o fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-2.6:118:xfs-$(CONFIG_XFS_TRACE) += support/ktrace.o fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.h:75:#ifdef CONFIG_XFS_TRACE rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel

finding your own dead "CONFIG_" variables

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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finding your own dead CONFIG_ variables

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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dead CONFIG_ variables under fs/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
)+= xfs_dir2_trace.o fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-2.6:118:xfs-$(CONFIG_XFS_TRACE) += support/ktrace.o fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.h:75:#ifdef CONFIG_XFS_TRACE rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel

Re: finding your own dead CONFIG_ variables

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
wouldn't add anything useful to the output. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/usb/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/scsi/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/* CONFIG_WD33C93_PIO */ drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c:297:#endif /* CONFIG_WD33C93_PIO */ drivers/scsi/wd33c93.h:193:#ifdef CONFIG_WD33C93_PIO rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: finding your own dead CONFIG_ variables

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Suggest: configfiles=$(find . -name 'Kconfig*' -or -name '*defconfig*') Some CONFIG_ options exist that are not declared anywhere in the Kconfig files but defined directly in the arch

dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/media/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/video/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/scsi/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Russell King wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:10:28AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: $ ../dead_config.sh drivers/scsi == ACORNSCSI_CONSTANTS == drivers/scsi/arm/acornscsi.c:106:#undef CONFIG_ACORNSCSI_CONSTANTS drivers/scsi/arm/acornscsi.c:417

Re: dead CONFIG_ variables: drivers/video/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 06:40 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: $ ../dead_config.sh drivers/video == FB_68328_INVERT == drivers/video/68328fb.c:53:#if defined(CONFIG_FB_68328_INVERT) Can be made part of Kconfig, I think

Remove apparently dead CONFIG_NO_ATA_LEGACY code.

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the single snippet of code conditional on the non-existent CONFIG_NO_ATA_LEGACY Kconfig variable. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- i would have mailed a note about this to the ATA maintainer but it wasn't clear who that was. this is the only dead CONFIG_ variable

dead CONFIG_ variable under drivers/block

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not remapped (CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY not set)\n, drivers/block/umem.c:1095:#ifdef CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY drivers/block/umem.c:1120:#ifdef CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel

dead CONFIG_ variables under drivers/char

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
XFREE86_VERSION(4,1,0,0) drivers/char/drm/r128_drm.h:272:#if CONFIG_XFREE86_VERSION = XFREE86_VERSION(4,1,0,0) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http

dead CONFIG_ variables under drivers/pcmcia

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
CONFIG_PRxK drivers/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c:545:#if defined(CONFIG_PRxK) drivers/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c:605:#endif /* CONFIG_PRxK */ rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario

dead CONFIG_ variables under drivers/serial/

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/* CONFIG_SH_KGDB */ drivers/serial/sh-sci.c:739:#ifdef CONFIG_SH_KGDB drivers/serial/sh-sci.c:1264:#ifdef CONFIG_SH_KGDB drivers/serial/sh-sci.c:1310:#endif /* CONFIG_SH_KGDB */ rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

dead CONFIG_ variables: th-th-that's all, folks

2007-05-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
you've been a great crowd, really. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

dead CONFIG_ variables: net/ipv4/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
_vs_sh.c:#define IP_VS_SH_TAB_BITS CONFIG_IP_VS_SH_TAB_BITS net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_sh.c:#define IP_VS_SH_TAB_SIZE (1 << IP_VS_SH_TAB_BITS) rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying K

dead CONFIG variables: net/bluetooth/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
NFIG_BT_RFCOMM_DEBUG == BT_SCO_DEBUG == net/bluetooth/sco.c:#ifndef CONFIG_BT_SCO_DEBUG == BT_SOCK_DEBUG == net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c:#ifndef CONFIG_BT_SOCK_DEBUG rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, T

dead CONFIG variables: net/wanrouter/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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dead CONFIG variables: net/irda/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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dead CONFIG variables: net/atm/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
$ ../dead_config.sh net/atm == BR2684_FAST_TRANS == net/atm/br2684.c:#ifdef CONFIG_BR2684_FAST_TRANS net/atm/br2684.c:#endif /* CONFIG_BR2684_FAST_TRANS */ rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

dead CONFIG variables: the kernel/ directory

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
$ ../dead_config.sh kernel == PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING == kernel/spinlock.c:#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario

dead CONFIG variables: first in a series

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
c.c: MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS); is it fair to say there's something strange going on here before i run any more tests? rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.

[PATCH] VIDEO: Remove archaic if[] construct from Kconfig file.

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the obsolete "if [ ]" construct from the video console Kconfig file. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- not sure who should have been CCed on this one. diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig index aa3935d

Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ssue has been flogged adequately on this mailing list, and it can safely be moved elsewhere where people who care about it can still get to it. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Wate

Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
update. add. remove. it's a wiki. don't make me pull this car over and explain it. :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ==

Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
o create and submit a feature removal patch that ends up just *establishing* that something shouldn't be deleted yet. i'm sure most people here can think of better things to do with their time. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Lin

Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused__

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 2 May 2007, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > not only that, but there are numerous files that *already* use > > "__unused": > > > > $ grep -rw __unused * > > ... snip lots of output here ... &g

Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused__

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ers/net/declance.c:#define __unused __attribute__ ((unused)) drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c:#define __unused __attribute__ ((unused)) i think "__unused" is the clear choice here. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Cons

Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused__

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
((unused)) drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c:#define __unused __attribute__ ((unused)) i think __unused is the clear choice here. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario

Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused__

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 2 May 2007, David Rientjes wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: not only that, but there are numerous files that *already* use __unused: $ grep -rw __unused * ... snip lots of output here ... as well as a few files that can now have their definition

Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just *establishing* that something shouldn't be deleted yet. i'm sure most people here can think of better things to do with their time. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry

Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, that's what the wiki page is for: http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Stuff_to_be_removed go. read. comment. update. add. remove. it's a wiki. don't make me pull this car over and explain it. :-) rday -- Robert P. J

Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
on this mailing list, and it can safely be moved elsewhere where people who care about it can still get to it. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http

[PATCH] VIDEO: Remove archaic if[] construct from Kconfig file.

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the obsolete if [ ] construct from the video console Kconfig file. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- not sure who should have been CCed on this one. diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig index aa3935d..63b85bf 100644

dead CONFIG variables: first in a series

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
: MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS); is it fair to say there's something strange going on here before i run any more tests? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net

dead CONFIG variables: the kernel/ directory

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
$ ../dead_config.sh kernel == PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING == kernel/spinlock.c:#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario

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