From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967247AbaFQWl0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:41:26 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:55297 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965424AbaFQWlV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:41:21 -0400 Message-ID: <1403044874.14743.36.camel@fourier> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.13 089/212] ACPI: Remove Kconfig symbol ACPI_PROCFS From: Kamal Mostafa To: Paul Bolle Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:41:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1403043991.1984.42.camel@x220> References: <1403041506-13646-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> <1403041506-13646-90-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> <1403043991.1984.42.camel@x220> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 00:26 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > Kamal, > > On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 14:43 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > > 3.13.11.4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Paul Bolle > > > > commit 7919010c4224e07b871f3b5513d245cc029fcd67 upstream. > > > > Nothing cares about ACPI_PROCFS. This has been the case since v2.6.38. > > This Kconfig symbol serves no purpose and its help text is now > > misleading. It can safely be removed. If this symbol would be needed > > again in the future it can be readded in a commit that adds code that > > actually uses it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki > > [ kamal: 3.13-stable prereq for > > e2a7c3d ACPI: Revert "ACPI: Remove CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER and cm_sbsc.c" ] > > I'm curious: how can this patch - which is straightforward cleanup, > without any further impact - be a prerequisite for a revert, or anything > else, for that matter? Hi Paul- Pulling in this cleanup patch allowed me to cleanly cherry-pick e2a7c3d. Yes, it would have been possible to massage e2a7c3d into applying but just cherry-picking both yields a cleaner end result, so that's what I opted to do for this case. -Kamal > > Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa > > > Paul Bolle >