From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert P. J. Day Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:02:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: leftover b43-related cruft in drivers/net/wireless? Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org i have a shell script that scans selected parts of the kernel source tree to locate, among other things, unused config variables in Kconfig files, and it identified the following under drivers/net/wireless: $ find_unused_configs.sh drivers/net/wireless >>>>> B43_BCMA_PIO drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig:113:config B43_BCMA_PIO >>>>> B43_BUSES_SSB drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig:52:config B43_BUSES_SSB >>>>> B43LEGACY_DMA_MODE drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig:85:config B43LEGACY_DMA_MODE >>>>> B43LEGACY_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig:31:config B43LEGACY_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT >>>>> B43LEGACY_PIO_MODE drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig:92:config B43LEGACY_PIO_MODE >>>>> B43_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig:68:config B43_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT >>>>> B43_PIO drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig:119:config B43_PIO $ no real harm, just means that there are Kconfig definitions of the above variables that no one appears to be testing for in the entire kernel source tree, so they're potentially safe to be removed. feel free to do with that what you will. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================