From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to remove 2000+ lines from 400+ defconfig files?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:54:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC2D182.2000702@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321385174.20271.222.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
Dne 15.11.2011 20:26, Paul Bolle napsal(a):
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 19:39 +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
>>> Since, if one is
>>> supposed to feed them to the config tools first it doesn't matter
>>> whether the (outdated) macros are still used somewhere in the code,
>>> doesn't it? The config tools will simply drop all macros they can't
>>> match with Kconfig symbols. (Or don't they? Michal?)
>>
>> Yes, they will not appear in the .config.
>
> So the fact that a few of these macros are still currently used in the
> code shouldn't bother us. The maintainers of that code have no reason to
> complain about dropping those macros from the various defconfig files,
> because that removal doesn't actually matter. Correct?
Correct.
Michal
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[not found] <1321362602.20271.192.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
2011-11-15 13:14 ` How to remove 2000+ lines from 400+ defconfig files? Jiri Kosina
2011-11-15 15:37 ` Paul Bolle
2011-11-15 18:39 ` Michal Marek
2011-11-15 18:57 ` Dave Jones
2011-11-15 19:21 ` Paul Bolle
2011-11-15 19:26 ` Paul Bolle
2011-11-15 20:54 ` Michal Marek [this message]
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