linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/21] pci: drop unused Kconfig symbol

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Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:22:54 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/21] pci: drop unused Kconfig symbol

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 04:11:25PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 09:57 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > Can you provide a commit message describing why?
> 
> I'm afraid there's not much more to be said than I did in the summary:
> this drops an unused Kconfig symbol. 

Why? Is it b/c PCI_DEBUG does not exist? How did you determine it is
unused?

> 
> > And can you also use scripts/get_maintainer.pl in the future
> > to copy the maintainer of this driver as well?

Driver, not Kconfig.
> 
> I actually did:
> $ git format-patch --stdout -1 ec9f7a5 | scripts/get_maintainer.pl 
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> (supporter:PCI SUBSYSTEM)
> linux-pci@...r.kernel.org (open list:PCI SUBSYSTEM)
> linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)

konrad@...nom:~/work/linux$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c 
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com> (supporter:XEN HYPERVISOR IN...)
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> (supporter:XEN HYPERVISOR IN...)
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> (supporter:PCI SUBSYSTEM)
xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com (open list:XEN HYPERVISOR IN...)
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org (open list:XEN HYPERVISOR IN...)
linux-pci@...r.kernel.org (open list:PCI SUBSYSTEM)
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
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