From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: roel kluin Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (USE_INTERNAL_TIMER) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:16:25 +0100 Message-ID: <25e057c01002050616x59c927fbpaf13f477ec012ec5@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100205132219.GA6874@faui49.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Samuel Ortiz , "David S. Miller" , Stephen Hemminger , Andrew Morton , Patrick McHardy , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vamos@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de To: Christoph Egger Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100205132219.GA6874@faui49.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0As part of the VAMOS[0] research project a= t the University of > Erlangen we're checking referential integrity between kernel KConfig > options and in-code Conditional blocks. > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0USE_INTERNAL_TIMER is another candidate. A= s can be seen on the > comment of the #undef instruction this part was quite likely never > working and safeguards were added si it is never enabled. > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Please keep me informed of this patch gett= ing confirmed / > merged so we can keep track of it. > > Regards > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Christoph Egger > > [0] http://vamos1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/ > > ---- > From f027b61661aaac1fd58536e17894e486d5fb3d3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 200= 1 > From: Christoph Egger > Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:11:16 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] USE_INTERNAL_TIMER explicitely #undef-ed and not in = kconfig > > CONFIG_USE_INTERNAL_TIMER seems to be the remainings of some > experiment. It is explicitely #undef-ed as not working, only > referenced from one source file and rather aged. > > Hereby cleaning it from the kernel tree. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger Looks correct to me, Acked-by: Roel Kluin