linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] score: remove unused CPU

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Date:	Sun, 9 Mar 2014 13:33:37 +0800
From:	Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] score: remove unused CPU_SCORE7 Kconfig parameter

Actually, people I don't want to brother are guys intergrate all
patches on the maillist.
There are too many patches whaic are waiting they to process.
I will check the development progress of the another Score and
consider if we should remove the config.
Thanks for your suggestion.

Best,
Lennox

2014-03-09 5:02 GMT+08:00 Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>:
> On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 04:27 +0800, Lennox Wu wrote:
>> 2014-03-09 4:00 GMT+08:00 Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>:
>> > In https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/12/76 I already reported that this
>> > Kconfig symbol was unused. Why can't it be dropped and re-added when
>> > code is added to the tree that actually uses it?
>>
>> Because I don't think droping it is meaningful, since it will be used.
>
> But, again, it isn't used now and hasn't actually been used in years.
>
>> Moreover, the symbol never affect other architectures or subsystems.
>> I feel that is not good to brother people to process the unimportant patch.
>
> Sure, this is just a small cleanup. But the scripts people use to see
> whether more serious Kconfig related issues have entered the tree will
> likely notice CPU_SCORE7. (And those people will have to investigate why
> that symbol is unused - which might take quite a bit of work - to
> determine what needs to be done about it.) So whenever someone, not
> following this thread, runs a script like that the score maintainers
> might receive a similar patch again.
>
> And I don't believe that handling a single cleanup patch is particularly
> burdensome for the score maintainers.
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>
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