On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:01:05PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > The CONFIG_HOTPLUG variable is tough to turn off, and almost all arches > default to it on. > > If you turn it off, it saves you a big 200 or so bytes, and then starts > to cause all sorts of problems as the code paths if the option is > disabled is never really tested, and memory segments start to get thrown > away that driver authors assume will always be present. > > So, as part of trying to get rid of the option entirely, let's just turn > the option always on. > > Note, to do this properly, I found two duplicate definitions of the > option, in the Tile and Xtensa arch files, this patch series removes > those duplicates first. > > Anyone object to me just taking these three patches through my > driver-core tree for 3.7? After this set, I'll start unwinding the > places where CONFIG_HOTPLUG is used and remove the parts that are not > used anymore now that the option can not be turned off.
Given the lack of objection, I've now queued these up for 3.7 and will start unwinding the CONFIG_HOTPLUG mess. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
