From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (snark.tuxedo.org [207.106.50.26]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6383D482A for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:19:07 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:18:34 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Alan Cox Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? Message-ID: <20010420091834.A5102@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com References: <20010419230009.A32500@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:08:25PM +0100 List-ID: Alan Cox : > > What is the right procedure for doing changes like this? Is "don't > > touch that tree" a permanent condition, or am I going to get a chance > > to clean up the global CONFIG_ namespace after your next merge-down? > > Feeding arch related stuff to the architecture maintainers. I shall attempt it. > > That's the main thing I'm after right now -- I want to cut down on > > the false positives in my orphaned-symbol reports so that the actual > > bugs will stand out. > > Teach it to read a 'symbolstoignore' file. Someone else has already pointed out that this is not a solution that will scale well. It would substitute a continuing management headache for the cleanup that's really needed. In fact I'm reluctant to do this even for cases where it's clearly legitimate (CONFIG_BOOM, CONFIG_BOGUS :-)) partly because later on it might provide an excuse for people not to do the cleanup. > Part of the problem you are hitting right now is that most > architectures are not yet fully in sync with 2.4 nor likely to all > be for another few iterations. Understood. I'll do what I can in the architecture-independent code, then. -- Eric S. Raymond "Boys who own legal firearms have much lower rates of delinquency and drug use and are even slightly less delinquent than nonowners of guns." -- U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, NCJ-143454, "Urban Delinquency and Substance Abuse," August 1995.