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[84.226.167.205]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id q24sm9418511edw.66.2020.11.30.12.25.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:25:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:25:01 +0200 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski To: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option Message-ID: <20201130202501.GA32878@kozik-lap> References: <20201130152137.24909-1-andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com> <20201130191133.GA1565464@ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201130191133.GA1565464@ravnborg.org> X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com, tony@atomide.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, thierry.reding@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org, lee.jones@linaro.org, daniel.thompson@linaro.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , deller@gmx.de, linux@armlinux.org.uk, jonathanh@nvidia.com, ludovic.desroches@microchip.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, will@kernel.org, mripard@kernel.org, Andrey Zhizhikin , linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, wens@csie.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, jernej.skrabec@siol.net, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, emil.l.velikov@gmail.com, nicolas.ferre@microchip.com, Olof Johansson , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" 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. Best regards, Krzysztof > > If the patches goes in like they are submitted then: > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg