On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:23:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:58:03 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> > > A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for
> > > kbuild.
> > > The shortlog below have additional details but the headlines are:
> > ...
> > > o add script to find unused kconfig symbols (try it!)
> >
> > based on my experiences with this, unless you filter carefully, you're
> > going to end up with a *whack* of false positives given the number of
> > developers who elect to name their local macros starting with a prefix
> > of "CONFIG_". good luck dealing with *that*. :-)
>
> box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc6> grep -r '^[ ]*#[ ]*define[
> ]*CONFIG_' . | wc -l
> 415
>
> bah. They're all bugs - The CONFIG_foo namespace is (should be) reserved in
> kernel coding.
I get (after a bit more filtering 349 hits of which 182 are outside drivers/
Of the 182 the 25 of them are in arch specific code.
I se no good reasons to address this unless we touch code in that area anyway.
But avoiding new entries are good.
Sam
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