netdev - Re: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (USE_INTERNAL

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Date:	Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:16:25 +0100
From:	roel kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Egger <siccegge@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vamos@...informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (USE_INTERNAL_TIMER)

>        As part of the VAMOS[0] research project at the University of
> Erlangen we're checking referential integrity between kernel KConfig
> options and in-code Conditional blocks.
>
>        USE_INTERNAL_TIMER is another candidate. As can be seen on the
> comment of the #undef instruction this part was quite likely never
> working and safeguards were added si it is never enabled.
>
>        Please keep me informed of this patch getting confirmed /
> merged so we can keep track of it.
>
> Regards
>
>        Christoph Egger
>
> [0] http://vamos1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/
>
> ----
> From f027b61661aaac1fd58536e17894e486d5fb3d3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christoph Egger <siccegge@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:11:16 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] USE_INTERNAL_TIMER explicitely #undef-ed and not in kconfig
>
> CONFIG_USE_INTERNAL_TIMER seems to be the remainings of some
> experiment. It is explicitely #undef-ed as not working, only
> referenced from one source file and rather aged.
>
> Hereby cleaning it from the kernel tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@...d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Looks correct to me,

Acked-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
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