linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 000/493] remove CONFIG

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Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:05:20 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@...ginia.edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/493] remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG as an option

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:46:11 +0000 Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@...ginia.edu> wrote:
>> > CONFIG_HOTPLUG is no longer an optional setting.  In order to remove
>> > it as on option code paths that check CONFIG_HOTPLUG will removed
>> > along with the attributes __devexit_p, __devexit, __devinitconst, and
>> > __devinitdata.
>> >
>> > I'll save the list from the mailbomb of this huge patchset.  The
>> > patches themselves are going to Greg KH for the driver core tree.
>> >
>> >
>> > Bill Pemberton (493):
>> [...]
>> >  2942 files changed, 11645 insertions(+), 12116 deletions(-)
>>
>> So, I've got no problem with the reason for the change and I don't
>> even think you need my ack for the bits that I maintain (though you
>> have it if you want it). However, this looks like it is going to be
>> /painful/. First of all it will touch a huge number of files in the
>> tree. Yes the change is trivial, but it will require manual fixups on
>> a lot of patches.
>
> Yeah, this is dopey.  Send the script to Linus and ask him to run it
> seven seconds before he releases -rc1, when everyone's trees are
> empty(ish).  Or send him a single megapatch at that time.

Yes please. I'm all on board with doing this in one fell swoop.

g.



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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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