Re: [PATCH] ACPI: remove unused ACPI_PROCFS Kconfig param

[Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>]

Hi Paul,

On 10/28/2013 09:27 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 07:22 +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>> [...] CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS is no longer used anywhere, neither in
>> Makefiles nor in the source code. ACPI_PROCFS isn't event used in
>> Kconfig files as an intermediate dependency.
>>
>> What I deduce from that is that even if you set CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y in
>> the kernel configuration, this will have no impact at all.
> About half a year ago I noticed that this Kconfig symbol is unused since
> v2.6.38 [0]. As, apparently, nothing has changed it is currently unused
> for over two and a half years.
>
> I still don't really understand the purpose of this symbol. But whatever
> it is, it might as well be dropped. If it's ever needed again it could
> be re-added. Or, perhaps, an entirely different approach could be used
> to accomplish what that symbol is supposed to do.
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>
> [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=136398635322975
Good to know that nobody has complained about this for two and half
years :) This is then probably safe to remove this symbol for good.

Thanks again,

Michael.

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