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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:20:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: still worth running kernel cleanup scripts after merge
windows?
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 03/08/10 05:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > as a single example, here's a snippet from the
> > drivers/message/fusion directory, identifying an apparently bad
> > reference to a non-existent CONFIG variable:
> >
> >>>>>> FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:179:#ifdef CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:180:#if CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE < 16
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:182:#elif CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE > 256
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:185:#define MPT_SCSI_FC_SG_DEPTH CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE
> >
> > but there is no such Kconfig variable FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE. however:
> >
> > $ grep -r FUSION_MAX drivers/message/fusion
> > drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig:config FUSION_MAX_SGE
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#ifdef CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#if CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE < 16
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#elif CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE > 128
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#define MPT_SCSI_SG_DEPTH CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#ifdef CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#if CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE < 16
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#elif CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE > 256
> > drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#define MPT_SCSI_FC_SG_DEPTH CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE
> > $
> >
> > so is that a typo? should "FUSION_MAX_FC_SGE" really be just
> > "FUSION_MAX_SGE"? anyway, you get the idea. or maybe i should just
> > put the scripts up at my wiki and people can run their at their
> > leisure on whatever part of the source tree interests them.
>
> Yes, please.
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup_scripts
have fun. (only the first script is there at the moment, additional
scripts to appear shortly.)
rday
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