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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Hi Krzysztof, On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:25:01PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 08:11:33PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > 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. > > savedefconfig can be tricky because of risk of loosing options: > 1. it will remove options which became the default or became selected, > 2. later when the default is changed or selecting option is removed, the > first option from #1 will not be brought back. > > This was already for example with DEBUG_FS and the conclusion that time > was - do not run savedefconfig automatically. > > Therefore if some symbol(s) can be safely removed, patch is welcomed. Thanks for letting me know, I have missed that discussion and was obviously not aware. I already acked'ed the patches and hope the soc people will pick them up. Sam _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel