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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1001150945230.5010-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:46:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Christoph Egger <siccegge@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<Reinhard.Tartler@...ormatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (USB_GADGET_*)

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, 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.
> 
> 	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.

Have you tried building g_file_storage and the other gadget drivers 
after applying your patch?

Alan Stern

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