On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Remove the macro "decl_subsys_name" which can be used to declare a
> > sysfs subsystem, along with the single invocation of it in the source
> > t
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >
> > Delete apparently unused header file
> > arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_itx.h.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
&g
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day writes:
>
> > Delete apparently unused header file arch/ppc/syslib/cpc710.h.
>
> I suggest you send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Matt Porter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g
pm_undo_all(dev);
- mutex_unlock(&pm_devs_lock);
- return status;
- }
- }
- entry = entry->next;
- }
- mutex_unlock(&pm_devs_lock);
- return 0;
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_register);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_send_all
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:33:16 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > just something i threw together, not in final form, but it
> > represents tossing the legacy PM stuff. at
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > One thing that comes to mind is that you wi
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > One thing that comes to mind is that you wi
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > One thing that comes to mind is that you wi
Remove everything related to legacy power management.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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OK, this is an official patch submission which extends the previous
unofficial one since it also removes the vestiges of legacy PM for the
FR-V and MIPS architectures, although
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:49:54PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:49:54 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[EM
Remove the obsolete code for the traffic shaper.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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nothing seems to be using this, it's labelled "OBSOLETE" in the
Kconfig file, and there is not a single test for CONFIG_SHAPER
anywhere in the tree. time to
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 04/15/2007 01:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > Remove the obsolete code for the traffic shaper.
>
> Why are all your messages getting a "{Spam?}" subject prefix?
i have no idea, that's a recent development. i
the admins about
this. sorry.)
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Ian McDonald wrote:
> On 4/15/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Remove the obsolete code for the traffic shaper.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
&g
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Ian McDonald wrote:
> On 4/15/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > in fact, according to this:
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/13/139
> >
> > that notice was put in the feature removal file well over a year ago,
>
i'll refrain from any more posting until i *know* it's fixed.
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bsoleted, wasn't it? and raw
drivers are going to be kept around for a while longer. so what's
legitimately dead? or what should be added to the feature removal
schedule? or, if it's not really "obsolete," perhaps it shouldn't be
described that way.
ju
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 15/04/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > in a recent posting, ian anderson suggested that, before kernel
> > features are removed, they should spend a reasonable amount of
> > time in the feat
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > [appropriate CCs added]
> >
> > On Friday, 13 April 2007 02:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > just something i threw together, not in final form, but it represents
> > > tossing t
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
...
> > um ... what does APM have to do with legacy PM? two different
> > issues, no?
> Since the patches are going into apm.c and apm was used for suspend
> and poweroff before ACPI was a feature of t
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> On Saturday 14 April 2007 09:01, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> > > PROTECTED]> wr
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:23, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > ok, i get it now and -- correct me if i'm wrong -- all my legacy PM
> > removal patch was doing was exposing a design boo-boo in which
> > APM/ACPI contention was bei
ind of contention mechanism
between APM and ACPI, which is entirely independent from the legacy
stuff. right?
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==
ATED)"
...
This option controls whether tracing thread support is compiled
into UML. This option is largely obsolete ...
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 21.04.2007 01:19 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> > [...] here's the short list of other stuff that is listed as on
> > its way to being dead, based on the contents of Kconfig files. any of
> > this stuff candidates for remo
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:23:54 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Replace the MAJOR() macro invocation with a call to the inline
> > imajor() routine.
> >
> >
be
removed at this point:
$ grep -Erw "(imajor|iminor)" * | wc -l
350
all i was doing was standardizing the small handful of holdouts.
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;
!defined(INKERNEL) && !defined(_KERNEL)) || defined(USE_SEQ_MACROS)
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On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Please be careful to add the appropriate cc's.
>
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:37:22 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Remove the apparently redundant GFP_KERNEL type fl
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On May 4 2007 04:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> On May 3 2007 23:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> >> struct inode *i = file->f_mapping->host;
> >> >>
> >> >> - return i &
Drop the entries for tty.h and isicom.h from the include/linux/Kbuild
file, since "make headers_install" just generates empty files for
them.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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i've submitted a patch to do this at least twice before. is there
so
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Cc: Alan Cox
>
> Robert P. J. Day napsal(a):
> > Drop the entries for tty.h and isicom.h from the include/linux/Kbuild
> > file, since "make headers_install" just generates empty files for
> > them.
> >
> >
Delete the allegedly obsolete "bank_size" member of struct mtd_info.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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the only other references to the symbol "bank_size" in the entire
tree are here:
$ grep -rw bank_size *
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c:i
e mode 100644 include/asm-generic/poll.h
hey ... if *this* goes in, can i re-try the same thing with ioctl.h?
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helpful if those entries also supported help
info. just my $0.02.
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fficient that SLAB but does not
- scale well (single lock for all operations) and is more susceptible
- to fragmentation. SLOB it is a great choice to reduce
- memory usage and code size for embedded systems.
-
-endchoice
-
-endmenu# Gene
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup":
>
> Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
>
> tglx
>
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup":
>
> Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
>
> tglx
>
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On May 8 2007 04:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > in my opinion, the config option "EMBEDDED" is just plain silly. as
> >i mentioned earlier, there may be other reasons that people want to
> >de-activat
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:06:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup":
> >
> > Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) --->
&g
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:06:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup":
> >
> > Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) --->
&g
t sure this is obsolete-enough to kill.
in that case, someone really should update
feature-removal-schedule.txt, which currently reads:
What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When: November 2005
...
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a78c7c6d4da3849b35bd6
> > Parent: 3dde6ad8fc3939d345a3768464ecff43c91d511a
> > Author: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > AuthorDate: Wed May 9 07:14:03 2007 +0200
> > Committer: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > CommitDate: Wed May 9 07:14:03 200
some discussion as to whether it was ready
for removal. was there any resolution on that? just curious.
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Delete all code and configuration info related to the obsolete
PCMCIA_IOCTL config setting.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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according to the feature removal Doc file, this feature was
scheduled for removal back in 2005. compile-tested with "make
allye
Delete the allegedly obsolete raw driver feature, which has been
marked for death since 2005.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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compile-tested with "make allyesconfig" under x86.
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |8
Documentation/
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Delete the allegedly obsolete raw driver feature, which has been
> > marked for death since 2005.
>
> I think it would be better to replace it with a wrap
$ grep -r PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING *
Documentation/irqflags-tracing.txt:CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is needed for
CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING
kernel/spinlock.c:#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > $ grep -r PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING *
> > Documentation/irqflags-tracing.txt:CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is needed
> > for CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING
> > kernel/spinlock.c:#i
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:57:36 -0400
> Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
*
> > + * The allocated mpi will be zeroed and not canonicalized
> > + */
if this is extractable kernel doc content, shouldn't it begin with
"/**" rather than just "/*"?
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update his script to handle this correctly.
i doubt that this is going to make any difference to my script. that
header file is, AFAICT, not included by any other file in the entire
source tree -- a simple "grep" will demonstrate that.
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Stop trying to remove the raw driver.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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happy now? :-P
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 0bc8b0b..6b845f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedu
include/asm-v850/io.h:
...
#if 0
/* This is really stupid; don't define it. */
#define page_to_bus(page) page_to_phys (page)
#endif
...
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Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/mtd/iflash.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/iflash.h b/include/linux/mtd/iflash.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 9aa5b4f..000
--- a/include/linux/mtd/iflash.h
+++ /dev/null
@@
Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/awe_voice.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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sorry, it's not clear who the maintainer is.
diff --git a/include/linux/awe_voice.h b/include/linux/awe_voice.h
deleted file mode 100644
index bf33f17..00
Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/dvb/version.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff --git a/include/linux/dvb/version.h b/include/linux/dvb/version.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 6183c9c..000
--- a/include/linux/dvb/version.h
+++ /de
Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/sdla_fr.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff --git a/include/linux/sdla_fr.h b/include/linux/sdla_fr.h
deleted file mode 100644
index cdfa77f..000
--- a/include/linux/sdla_fr.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Marcel Siegert wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/dvb/version.h.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> NACK
> this h
tting my final dead header file patch shortly.
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Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/if_wanpipe_common.h,
as well as the reference to it in the Doc file.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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there is a related header file, linux/if_wanpipe.h, that is unused
in the source tree but is still expor
include/
math-emu/
extended.h
media/
cs53l32a.h
wm8775.h
thoughts?
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Delete the unreferenced header file include/math-emu/extended.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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one more header file that absolutely no one refers to but i'm sure
*someone* is going to defend to the death.
diff --git a/include/math-emu/extended.h b/inclu
Delete the unreferenced header file include/media/cs53l32a.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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not even the matching *source* file drivers/media/video/cs53l32a.c
includes this header file. that would seem a pretty good sign that no
one loves it anymore.
diff -
Delete the unreferenced header file include/media/wm8775.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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even the matching source file drivers/media/video/wm8775.c doesn't
include this header file.
diff --git a/include/media/wm8775.h b/include/media/wm8775.h
delete
le, by the way) to be built as modules, while the help text
for all five entries suggests you can select "y".
as jack nicholson would say, something's gotta give.
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Remove the Kconfig requirement that the PCMCIA SCSI drivers be built
only as modules, and allow them to be built into the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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i imagine there's a historical reason for these drivers being forced
to be built only as module
Delete the never-compiled source file drivers/input/power.c, and
remove its entry from the corresponding Makefile, as there is no
Kconfig file that refers to the config option INPUT_POWER.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff --git a/drivers/input/Makefile b/d
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:28:39 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Delete the never-compiled source file drivers/input/power.c, and
> > remove its entry from the corresponding Makefile,
Add a small number of preprocessor directives to
include/asm-generic/ioctl.h so that individual architectures need only
override a small number of values, if any, before including the
generic version.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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i'll take one more cr
atesh Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> lets kill this in 2.6.22
given that there's no way this is going to make it into 2.6.21, isn't
that what adrian is proposing here?
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Remove conditionals and code related to checking for a pre-2.2
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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i'm fairly certain there's no value in checking for pre-2.2 kernels
anymore. (not compile tested as i have no such system.)
diff --git a/arch/cris
i'm curious -- has there been any decision about the config option
of FORCED_INLINING? the feature removal file suggests it should have
disappeared last year. is it still doing something useful?
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Replace what appears to be an incorrect spelling of "__typeof" with
the correct spelling of "__typeof__".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/include/asm-mips/paccess.h b/include/asm-mips/paccess.h
index 147844e..8c08fa9 100644
--- a/
Following the programming advice laid down in the gcc manual, make
sure the case "..." operator has spaces on either side.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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According to:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case-Ranges:
&q
Following the programming advice laid down in the gcc manual, make
sure the case "..." operator has spaces on either side.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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These are the only other examples of this in the entire kernel source
tree, so no need to worry ab
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:23:27AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > Replace what appears to be an incorrect spelling of "__typeof"
> > with the correct spelling of "__typeof__".
>
> Not a bug, just old fas
functions:
>
> static spinlock_t foobar = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
but that's where you would use the more explicit
__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED, no? AFAIK, you really can remove the macro
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED in its entirety.
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em? you still need some
kind of generic, unnamed spinlock in those circumstances, no?
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:45:07PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > that works fine if you're defining a single spinlock, but what do you
> > do in cases like this:
> >
> > arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c:
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n .
that entire "Embedded" submenu is a hideous mis-design, as selecting
it simply presents you with options you can now "*de-select*. that is
*anything* but intuitive.
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retty much the same thing with
"menuconfig" but it's downright messy. rather than make all these
"menuconfig" changes right now, i would prefer to see a cleaner
structure introduced that does most of that work under the hood.
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Apr 11 2007 03:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > General setup
> >[ ] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) --->
> >
> >note how, even if you don't choose to configure feature
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Apr 11 2007 05:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> On Apr 11 2007 03:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>
> >> A CONFIG_EMBEDDED bug. This should perhaps be changed.
&g
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Apr 11 2007 05:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> On Apr 11 2007 05:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> >On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> >> On Apr 11 2007 03:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > (in short, if i, the builder, explicitly choose *not* to add a
> > certain feature to my build, i think i have every right to expect that
> > some other part of my configuration isn't quietly
Remove the apparently redundant include of .
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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compile-tested on x86, in preparation for the day when the legacy PM
code goes away.
diff --git a/drivers/net/3c509.c b/drivers/net/3c509.c
index f791bf0..a8ea346 100644
--- a/drive
so why
confuse the issue with an extra unnecessary macro expansion?
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:33 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> > > On 04/04/2007 06:38 PM, Rene Herman wrote:
> > >
> > > Rusty?
> >
> > Valid points have b
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, William Heimbigner wrote:
> The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and
> ondemand in the kernel configuration.
>
> William Heimbigner
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6/Documentation/dontdiff
> linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6/dr
Remove the clearly useless config option GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK, which
is not used anywhere in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/arch/avr32/Kconfig b/arch/avr32/Kconfig
index ce4013a..747922d 100644
--- a/arch/avr32/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/avr32/K
Remove the apparently useless config option GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK,
since nothing in the source tree refers to it.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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along with the single reference under AVR32 reported earlier, these
are the only other references to GENERIC_BUST_SP
Replace the few remaining instances of "depends" in the Kconfig files
with the new standard of "depends on".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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for what i hope is the *very* *last* *time*, replace the deprecated
"depends" (and, for
urce tree, and simply uses
that kind of preprocessor check to make sure it's being compiled
appropriately?
or are you doing something more sophisticated than simply checking the
kernel version being tested?
rday
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m off.
there is only one solution to that sort of thing -- blacklist the
entire sending domain until they get a clue. yes, it's draconian, but
there's really no other way to educate them.
rday
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SCSI-related), but is it official policy to support code based on its
release number in the 2.5 series of releases? unless you have a good
reason, wouldn't it make more sense to compare against (2,6,0) rather
than, say, (2,5,73)? just an observation.
rday
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Replace the MAJOR() macro invocation with a call to the inline
imajor() routine.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 6b5b642..08da15b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -710,7
Replace the call to MINOR() with a call to the inline iminor()
routine.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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that's the last of those changes, but it's not clear who the official
maintainer is, so i took a chance and picked a likely looking victim
out of the
http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Maturity_levels
rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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ct aic_dev_data),
GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_KERNEL);
drivers/message/i2o/device.c: resblk = kmalloc(buflen + 8, GFP_KERNEL |
GFP_ATOMIC);
clarification?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pe
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Shan, Guo Wen (Gavin) wrote:
>
> #define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH)
> #define GFP_NOIO(__GFP_WAIT)
> #define GFP_NOFS(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)
> #define GFP_KERNEL (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
>
> -Original Message-----
>
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