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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:21:54 -0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com> To: Patrick Boettcher <pboettcher@...nellabs.com> CC: Christoph Egger <siccegge@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Reinhard.Tartler@...ormatik.uni-erlangen.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (DVB_DIBCOM_DEBUG) Hi Patrick, Could you please take a look on this patch? It makes sense or to apply it or to add an option to enable debug messages at the drivers. Cheers, Mauro Christoph Egger wrote: > Hi all! > > As part of the VAMOS[0] research project at the University of > Erlangen we're checking referential integrity between kernel KConfig > options and in-code Conditional blocks. > > By this we discovered the config Option DVB_DIBCOM_DEBUG, > which was dropped while removing the dibusb driver in favor of dvb-usb > in 2005. However it remaind existant at some places of the kernel > config. > > Probably one should be a bit more agressive here as the dprintk > macro now expands to a do{}while(0) unconditionally so all blocks > using them can also be dropped to remove in-tree cruft but the patch > does a first cleanup. > > Please keep me informed of this patch getting confirmed / > merged so we can keep track of it. > > Regards > > Christoph Egger > > [0] http://vamos1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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