Re: [PATCH v9 07/12] coresight-etm: add CoreSight ETM/PTM driver

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 20:32 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 08:40 -0700, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> > On 10 November 2014 03:34, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 11:07 -0700, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org wrote:
> > >> +#ifdef CONFIG_CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM_DEFAULT_ENABLE
> > >
> > > There's no Kconfig symbol CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM_DEFAULT_ENABLE. Neither
> > > is there a preprocessor definition of this macro. So why was this
> > > added?
> > 
> > Correct - the feature (as we really want it) is currently being worked
> > on but not yet part of the code base.  The default option probably
> > should have been removed but it doesn't do much else when mandating
> > one to add a boot option on the kernel cmd line.
> 
> I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean here. Anyhow, using a Kconfig
> symbol to set a default for something that can also be set through a
> kernel parameter might be considered overdoing it. But that's not for me
> to decide.
> 
> Unless the patch that adds this Kconfig symbol takes a long time to land
> in linux-next, I won't be bothering you again.

Two months have passed. This code made it unchanged into v3.19-rc1. A
Kconfig symbol CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM_DEFAULT_ENABLE is not yet part of
linux-next.

Should I submit a trivial patch to drop the useless check for
CONFIG_CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM_DEFAULT_ENABLE?


Paul Bolle