linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390: remove HAVE_MARCH_Z9?0

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Message-ID: <20140217082035.GA4651@osiris>
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:20:35 +0100
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, linux390@...ibm.com,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: remove HAVE_MARCH_Z9?0_FEATURES

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 06:15:27PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> The Kconfig symbols HAVE_MARCH_Z900_FEATURES and
> HAVE_MARCH_Z990_FEATURES were added in v3.5. They have never been used.
> Apparently they are not needed. They can safely be removed.
> 

No, I want to keep them, so there is a config symbol for each cpu generation
and we don't have to add the config symbols again, if we actually use them.
It's a question of completeness in this case, not if they are being used.

Thanks,
Heiko

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