Re: [PATCH 24/28] Remove DEPRECATED

Paul Bolle
2014-06-18T08:47:19Z

David, Koichi,

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 09:52 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 10.02.2014 09:49, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> >> I assumed that every kernel developer is aware of that fact that unreachable/dead code
> >> should be removed.
> >
> > Yes, it should be removed.
> >
> > But that's not what you did. You did the Kconfig-equivalent of removing a
> > "#if 0" in a C source file, which causes havoc.
>
> Fair point. I'll remove that code in v2.
> Hopefully I can catch all breakage on my testbed as many archs/configs are involved.

After first reporting this issue, in 2011, I tried to remove all dead
code hiding behind config GDBSTUB. I still have the results of that
attempt stashed away:
$ git stash show stash@{12}
arch/mn10300/Kconfig.debug | 122 +-----
arch/mn10300/boot/compressed/misc.c | 9 -
arch/mn10300/include/asm/exceptions.h | 7 -
arch/mn10300/include/asm/gdb-stub.h | 182 ---------
arch/mn10300/kernel/Makefile | 3 -
arch/mn10300/kernel/entry.S | 21 --
arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-io-serial-low.S | 91 -----
arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-io-serial.c | 174 ---------
arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-io-ttysm-low.S | 93 -----
arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-io-ttysm.c | 303 ---------------
arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-low.S | 115 ------
arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-stub.c | 1923 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
arch/mn10300/kernel/head.S | 10 -
arch/mn10300/kernel/mn10300-serial.c | 9 -
arch/mn10300/kernel/mn10300-serial.h | 14 -
arch/mn10300/kernel/mn10300-watchdog.c | 14 +-
arch/mn10300/kernel/process.c | 1 -
arch/mn10300/kernel/smp-low.S | 4 -
arch/mn10300/kernel/smp.c | 7 -
arch/mn10300/mm/fault.c | 9 -
arch/mn10300/mm/misalignment.c | 1 -
arch/mn10300/mm/tlb-mn10300.S | 13 -
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2303/include/unit/serial.h | 83 ----
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2305/include/unit/serial.h | 76 ----
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2305/unit-init.c | 2 -
arch/mn10300/unit-asb2364/include/unit/serial.h | 64 ----
26 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3348 deletions(-)

By then I admitted defeat.

I might be willing to revisit this and draft a series of patches to
clean that up properly. But I think I never got any reaction on
Richard's patch or my report. And I do prefer to know beforehand what
your plans are for config GDBSTUB.

Paul Bolle