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Message-ID: <CA+55aFy-CeLXstbceP7+co3AXrEWtifKF+8NWzhC7B-A8xBd-w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:58:35 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	tony@...eyournoodle.com, mmarek@...e.cz, lacombar@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: strip 15,000 lines from a typical autoconf.h

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:
>
> Commit ce1744f4ed20ca8 seems to endorse C users of IS_ENABLED, and
> it went through Linus and Andrew, so I'm not sure scrapping C users
> as a solution will be universally agreeable...

I think we can easily drop IS_ENABLED() if it has been causing
problems. And it clearly is.

And I had never even looked at that generated file. It's disgusting.
We need to stop doing that. It must be driving compile-times up too -
just parsing that monster is RealWork(tm).

                  Linus
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