From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <1403043991.1984.42.camel@x220> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.13 089/212] ACPI: Remove Kconfig symbol ACPI_PROCFS From: Paul Bolle To: Kamal Mostafa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:26:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1403041506-13646-90-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1403041506-13646-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> <1403041506-13646-90-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Kamal, On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 14:43 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > 3.13.11.4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Paul Bolle > > commit 7919010c4224e07b871f3b5513d245cc029fcd67 upstream. > > Nothing cares about ACPI_PROCFS. This has been the case since v2.6.38. > This Kconfig symbol serves no purpose and its help text is now > misleading. It can safely be removed. If this symbol would be needed > again in the future it can be readded in a commit that adds code that > actually uses it. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki > [ kamal: 3.13-stable prereq for > e2a7c3d ACPI: Revert "ACPI: Remove CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER and cm_sbsc.c" ] I'm curious: how can this patch - which is straightforward cleanup, without any further impact - be a prerequisite for a revert, or anything else, for that matter? > Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa Paul Bolle