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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:56:59 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/493] remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG as an option
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:46:11 +0000 Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> wrote:
> > CONFIG_HOTPLUG is no longer an optional setting.  In order to remove
> > it as on option code paths that check CONFIG_HOTPLUG will removed
> > along with the attributes __devexit_p, __devexit, __devinitconst, and
> > __devinitdata.
> >
> > I'll save the list from the mailbomb of this huge patchset.  The
> > patches themselves are going to Greg KH for the driver core tree.
> >
> >
> > Bill Pemberton (493):
> [...]
> >  2942 files changed, 11645 insertions(+), 12116 deletions(-)
> 
> So, I've got no problem with the reason for the change and I don't
> even think you need my ack for the bits that I maintain (though you
> have it if you want it). However, this looks like it is going to be
> /painful/. First of all it will touch a huge number of files in the
> tree. Yes the change is trivial, but it will require manual fixups on
> a lot of patches.

Yeah, this is dopey.  Send the script to Linus and ask him to run it
seven seconds before he releases -rc1, when everyone's trees are
empty(ish).  Or send him a single megapatch at that time.