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Date:	Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:21:59 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: drop even more unused Kconfig symbols

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:10:06PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> When I submitted commit 6805ab6daa2b589fe3242d05ddc47a9dbb0c4eb1
> ("powerpc: drop unused Kconfig symbols") I apparently failed to notice
> that my patch also made PREP_RESIDUAL and PPC_A2_DD2 unused. Drop these
> now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
> ---
> 0) Untested.
> 
> 1) I investigated these Kconfig files a bit and discovered that PPC_PREP
> is marked BROKEN since v2.6.15, see commit
> 5be396b00ca0f2f769c55cf69bbd7c77451c925e ("powerpc: Mark PREP and
> embedded as broken for now"). Though it's not my problem, this does
> suggest PReP support can be removed entirely.

It does, and the best code is deleted code.

Care to send a patch?

cheers
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