From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261201AbVAaOBN (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:01:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261206AbVAaOBN (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:01:13 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:48652 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261201AbVAaOBF (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:01:05 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:01:04 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Arjan van de Ven , David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: inter-module-* removal.. small next step Message-ID: <20050131140104.GK18316@stusta.de> References: <20050130180016.GA12987@infradead.org> <1107132112.783.219.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <1107159869.4221.53.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050131135631.GA6694@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050131135631.GA6694@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:56:32PM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 31 January 2005 09:24:29 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 00:41 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 18:00 +0000, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > > > intermodule is deprecated for quite some time now, and MTD is the sole last > > > > user in the tree. To shrink the kernel for the people who don't use MTD, and > > > > to prevent accidental return of more users of this, make the compiling of > > > > this function conditional on MTD. > > > > > > Please get the dependencies right -- it's not core MTD code, but the NOR > > > chip drivers and the old DiskOnChip drivers which use this. > > > > that's just a slightly more finegrained thing, not sure if it's worth > > going that deep, esp since it become 2 deps not one, making a bigger > > mess than needed. > > How about this one? It's actually less messy inside kernel/Makefile. > > Completely untested, though. Your patch doesn't add a Kconfig entry for INTER_MODULE_CRAP. > Jörn >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed