From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k...@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:11:24 +0200
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 02:36:33PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 07:00:55AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> > Remove old, dead Kconfig options (in order appearing in this commit):
>> > - EXPERIMENTAL is gone since v3.9;
>> > - INET_LRO: commit 7bbf3cae65b6 ("ipv4: Remove inet_lro library");
>> > - AUTOFS_FS: commit 561c5cf9236a ("staging: Remove autofs3");
>> > - RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR: commit a00e0d714fbd ("rcu: Remove conditional
>> > compilation for RCU CPU stall warnings");
>> > - USB_DEVICE_CLASS: commit 007bab91324e ("USB: remove
>> > CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS");
>> > - SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK: commit 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the
>> > sysctl sanity checks");
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k...@kernel.org>
>> > Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
>>
>> Hi Krzysztof.
>>
>> This looks like a manually edited defconfig.
>> A better approch would be to do:
>> $ make ARCH=sparc64 sparc64_defconfig
>> $ make ARCH=sparc64 savedefconfig
>>
>> And then to check the generated defconfig.
>> Same for sparc32.
>
> Actually this was generated with sed instead of defconfig on purpose -
> as part of my bigger cleanup starting from ARM [1]. In case of
> defconfigs for my platform we wanted to preserve the explanation why
> things are disappearing, not only to savedefconfig. Indeed this brought
> up that few items from savedefconfig would be gone but should be
> replaced with different (new) items.
>
> Anyway this way you have a full control and explanation why things are
> being changed. After this you can always run defconfig to reorganize and
> clean up.
>
> [1] https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2017-06/msg00255.html
Yeah I guess this is OK for now. But we should do a tool based regen at
some point soon.
Applied, thanks.
