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Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 12:02:56 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: finding your own dead "CONFIG_" variables On Thursday 03 May 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Suggest: configfiles=$(find . -name 'Kconfig*' -or -name '*defconfig*') > > > > Some CONFIG_ options exist that are not declared anywhere in the > > Kconfig files but defined directly in the arch/.../*defconfig* > > files. > > it's my understanding that entries in any defconfig files are > *automatically* pruned at some point once a CONFIG_ variable no longer > exists in any Kconfig file, so i'm not going to be touching those > files. also, adding that extra check wouldn't add anything useful to > the output. An interesting category would be a symbol that is - used in a source file - defined in an old defconfig - not present in any Kconfig* file If any of these exist, I would consider them _worse_ than the ones found by your initial script, because some functionality that once was there has been recently removed. Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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