From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: multiplatform: remove reference to ARCH_MULTI_V4
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:34:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201307141034.42868.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1373746191.1359.37.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
On Saturday 13 July 2013, Paul Bolle wrote:
> The Kconfig symbol ARCH_MULTI_V4 was removed in commit 24e860fbfd
> ("ARM: multiplatform: always pick one CPU type"). Remove the last
> reference to it too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
> ---
> 0) Untested.
>
> 1) Commit 24e860fbfd is silent on the reason to drop ARCH_MULTI_V4. And
> the ARM section of the Kconfig files is rather complicated for people,
> like me, that aren't familiar with the way the ARM universe is divided
> in architectures, machines, platforms, etc. That makes it hard to say
> whether ARCH_MULTI_V4 was dropped on purpose or by accident.
It was dropped on purpose because it is unused in 3.11 but it will
be used again in 3.12, so I wouldn't bother with your patch.
Thanks anyway for looking into unused symbols, I think checking for
unused code like this is very useful in general.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-14 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-13 20:09 [PATCH] ARM: multiplatform: remove reference to ARCH_MULTI_V4 Paul Bolle
2013-07-14 8:34 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-02-10 1:20 ` Paul Bolle
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