linux-kernel - [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (USB_GADGET

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Message-ID: <20100115134833.GD3321@faui49.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:48:33 +0100
From:	Christoph Egger <siccegge@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	siccegge@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,
	Reinhard.Tartler@...ormatik.uni-erlangen.de
Subject: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (USB_GADGET_*)

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.

	The linux tree contains USB-Id assignment snippets for some
USB Gadget drivers, which, as far as I can tell, never worked on
mainline linux2.6 but either originate from seemingly long-dead
third-party trees or were never ported from linux2.4.

	As there has also seemingly never existed a way to select
these configs in the KConfig system it might be time to get rid of
them which would be done by the attached patch.

	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/

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