linux-kernel - Re: Unused config options in drivers/mtd (Re: running my kernel scanning scripts on your favourite part of the tree)

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011261122140.13435@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:29:29 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Unused config options in drivers/mtd (Re: running my kernel
 scanning scripts on your favourite part of the tree)

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Michal Marek wrote:

> CC the mtd maintainer and mailinglist and adjusted subject. Robert, you
> should report such bugs to the maintainer / author of the code in
> question, otherwise your mail might end up unnoticed on LKML.
>
> Michal

 {sigh}.  the point of my earlier post was not specifically to point
out unused kernel config vars in the MTD code; rather, it was to
suggest that anyone who's interested can run my scanning scripts to
locate such things for themselves in their favourite subsystem(s) -- i
simply used the MTD code as a working example.

  and, BTW, there are still dead config variables in the code that go
back *several* major versions, even though i've documented them just
as many times here:

  http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup

so if you're curious, the scripts are here:

  http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup_scripts

rday

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