linux-kernel - Re: bad CONFIG variable references from Makefiles

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Message-ID: <20080804102421.588e2e56@gaivota.chehab.org>
Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:24:21 -0300
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Douglas Landgraf <dougsland@...il.com>
Subject: Re: bad CONFIG variable references from Makefiles

Hi Adrian,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:48:41 +0300
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:09:28PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 
> >   a complete list of all references to non-existent CONFIG variables
> > exclusively from Makefiles in the tree.  since the list is so short,
> > i'm not bothering to break it up by subsystem or arch.  enjoy.
> >...
> > ===== RADIO_MIROPCM20 =====
> > ./drivers/media/radio/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_RADIO_MIROPCM20) += miropcm20.o
> > ===== RADIO_MIROPCM20_RDS =====
> > ./drivers/media/radio/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_RADIO_MIROPCM20_RDS) +=
> > miropcm20-rds.o
> >...
> 
> Mauro, 1.5 years ago you said you wanted this code to stay for having it 
> perhaps ported to ALSA.
> 
> Do you still want it to stay or could it be removed now (if anyone 
> suddenly feels the desire to work on it the code is still in older 
> kernels)?
> 

Douglas started working on this, but never finished a changeset. Since nobody
ever complained about this during this 1.5 years period, IMO, we should just
drop it.

Cheers,
Mauro
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