Re: [PATCH 0/5] drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>
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	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:11:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201130191133.GA1565464@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201130152137.24909-1-andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 03:21:32PM +0000, Andrey Zhizhikin wrote:
> Since the removal of generic_bl driver from the source tree in commit
> 7ecdea4a0226 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it is
> unused") BACKLIGHT_GENERIC config option became obsolete as well and
> therefore subject to clean-up from all configuration files.
> 
> This series introduces patches to address this removal, separated by
> architectures in the kernel tree.
> 
> Andrey Zhizhikin (5):
>   ARM: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
>   arm64: defconfig: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
>   MIPS: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
>   parisc: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
>   powerpc/configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option

For defconfigs I expect arch maintainers to do a make xxxdefconfig / make
savedefconfig / cp defconfig ... run now and then - this will remove
all such symbols.

If the patches goes in like they are submitted then:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

> 
>  arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig          | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/cm_x300_defconfig          | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/colibri_pxa300_defconfig   | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/jornada720_defconfig       | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/magician_defconfig         | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/mini2440_defconfig         | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig        | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/pxa3xx_defconfig           | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig             | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/sama5_defconfig            | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/sunxi_defconfig            | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig            | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig            | 1 -
>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig                | 1 -
>  arch/mips/configs/gcw0_defconfig            | 1 -
>  arch/mips/configs/gpr_defconfig             | 1 -
>  arch/mips/configs/lemote2f_defconfig        | 1 -
>  arch/mips/configs/loongson3_defconfig       | 1 -
>  arch/mips/configs/mtx1_defconfig            | 1 -
>  arch/mips/configs/rs90_defconfig            | 1 -
>  arch/parisc/configs/generic-64bit_defconfig | 1 -
>  arch/powerpc/configs/powernv_defconfig      | 1 -
>  22 files changed, 22 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: b65054597872ce3aefbc6a666385eabdf9e288da
> prerequisite-patch-id: bfd382cf1dc021d20204f10ea9403319c1c32b12
> prerequisite-patch-id: 5397c0c8648bb3e0b830207ea867138c11c6e644
> prerequisite-patch-id: a3c284dff5fe6d02828918a886db6a8ed3197e20
> -- 
> 2.17.1