From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Opdenacker Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: remove unused ACPI_PROCFS Kconfig param Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:42:51 +0100 Message-ID: <526E238B.2070900@free-electrons.com> References: <1382857012-2971-1-git-send-email-michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> <526E0293.4080702@free-electrons.com> <1382948855.32195.9.camel@x220.thuisdomein> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from top.free-electrons.com ([176.31.233.9]:60982 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751848Ab3J1Im4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:42:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1382948855.32195.9.camel@x220.thuisdomein> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Bolle Cc: Lan Tianyu , Len Brown , rjw@rjwysocki.net, "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger kernel org" 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. -- Michael Opdenacker, CEO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com +33 484 258 098