Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-20T03:00:46Z

Matthew Wilcox <willy@ldl.fc.hp.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 18:50:34 EDT, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Remove dead CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA symbol.
>
> Please don't do this, it just makes merging our patches with Linus harder.

Bother. I've now heard "don't touch that tree!" from you and the ARM
folks. I'm trying to be a good neighbor, here, but there is some
cleanup I want to do that crosses port boundaries. (None of this is CML2,
BTW; I'm now addressing problems that are common to CML1 as well.)

What is the right procedure for doing changes like this? Is "don't
touch that tree" a permanent condition, or am I going to get a chance
to clean up the global CONFIG_ namespace after your next merge-down?

Could I ask you to audit your tree and change the prefix on any
CONFIG_ symbols that are private over there? This would make life
easier for my auditing tools (kxref and Stephen Cole's ach script).

That's the main thing I'm after right now -- I want to cut down on
the false positives in my orphaned-symbol reports so that the actual
bugs will stand out.
--
Eric S. Raymond

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