From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751855Ab3GNIfU (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:35:20 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:52110 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751680Ab3GNIfS (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:35:18 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Paul Bolle Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: multiplatform: remove reference to ARCH_MULTI_V4 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:34:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.8.0-22-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1373746191.1359.37.camel@x61.thuisdomein> In-Reply-To: <1373746191.1359.37.camel@x61.thuisdomein> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201307141034.42868.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:mN+NO8ME7081Jgny0vv5p7+JjQamDgeEk/kVhA6m2PA s2pFdcDEdNqttBlKDvVFqOt6Raj2gAD3lHVM5Pb3kuQ1NbL4K9 sjA2/yUIVuVR/XvUAQ4SMCWWAknzBEt6+Hcv2I1yKZszkkwB3R KIKZC0F1oWInnsp1Q/U5YOF+sS63GVdrPC+gla55JwQLd1gOU+ PLsDdPvSz6UEZ1Dn5VBzBYlJh/nBPYxFpr7GWFNqBFYUXN5TLH 0g2MJ8fE2Paz/aWHHBal83tozLv8M2UQZFRblBNOjpz+cXDzzq bB9YrL/fR12/J83xL26mNmDiWooEsRNZVYD+PIFzjCe3oKJidE hjovynPHRiyzFLPyPDwQ= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > --- > 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