On Sat, 2015-01-24 at 18:33 +0200, Semen Protsenko wrote: > This patch series removes next obsolete MTD configs from all defconfig files: > - CONFIG_MTD_CHAR > - CONFIG_MTD_CONCAT > - CONFIG_MTD_DEBUG > - CONFIG_MTD_DEBUG_VERBOSE > - CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS > > All those configs were removed from drivers/mtd/Kconfig earlier, but their > usage > in defconfig files was remain unnoticed. There are at least two obvious > reasons > to get rid of those configs: > 1. Their usage may cause to build warnings
That's news for me. I thought they are silently ignored. Do you have an example of such a warning? > 2. Their usage may confuse someone who is grepping defconfig files to get > the clue what MTD configuration may look like. > > This series is harmless for all those defconfigs and will not break anything. > > > Semen Protsenko (4): > defconfigs: remove CONFIG_MTD_CONCAT > defconfigs: remove CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS > defconfigs: remove CONFIG_MTD_CHAR > defconfigs: remove CONFIG_MTD_DEBUG* > > arch/arm/configs/acs5k_defconfig | 3 --- > [...] > arch/unicore32/configs/unicore32_defconfig | 2 -- > 226 files changed, 364 deletions(-) Seems like the kind of change that can only be reviewed by a script. Is there any policy on keeping defconfig files up to date? Because, only slightly exaggerated, all the defconfig files are outdated, in minor or major ways, at any given moment. I seem to remember Greg stating that defconfig files are on their way out. Did I remember that correctly? Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
