linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (BUFFER

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Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:56:29 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Christoph Egger <siccegge@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Kazuo Moriwaka <moriwaka@...hat.com>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>,
	Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, vamos@...informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (BUFFER_DEBUG)

On Fri 05-02-10 14:13:33, 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.
> 
> 	With some commit somewhere around 2.4.15 the last hint of
> CONFIG_BUFFER_DEBUG (apart from the 2 occurences this patch addresses)
> -- some documentation -- was removed from the kernel source. However
> this one piece of code made it till today. Time to go forward and
> remove it?
> 
> 	Please keep me informed of this patch getting confirmed /
> merged so we can keep track of it.
  Thanks, the patch looks good. I've merged it into my linux-fs tree and
will send it to Linus in the next merge window.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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