Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751864Ab3J2Fvk (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 01:51:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:59245 "EHLO mail-ie0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751748Ab3J2Fvg (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 01:51:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1382948855.32195.9.camel@x220.thuisdomein> References: <1382857012-2971-1-git-send-email-michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> <526E0293.4080702@free-electrons.com> <1382948855.32195.9.camel@x220.thuisdomein> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:51:35 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: remove unused ACPI_PROCFS Kconfig param From: Lan Tianyu To: Paul Bolle Cc: Michael Opdenacker , Len Brown , rjw@rjwysocki.net, "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger kernel org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1396 Lines: 38 2013/10/28 Paul Bolle : > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 07:22 +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote: >> [...] CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS is no longer used anywhere, neither in >> Makefiles nor in the source code. ACPI_PROCFS isn't event used in >> Kconfig files as an intermediate dependency. >> >> What I deduce from that is that even if you set CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y in >> the kernel configuration, this will have no impact at all. > > About half a year ago I noticed that this Kconfig symbol is unused since > v2.6.38 [0]. As, apparently, nothing has changed it is currently unused > for over two and a half years. > > I still don't really understand the purpose of this symbol. But whatever > it is, it might as well be dropped. If it's ever needed again it could > be re-added. Or, perhaps, an entirely different approach could be used > to accomplish what that symbol is supposed to do. I prefer the later. I will add new sysfs interface for LID status and make all proc related code in the /driver/acpi/button.c under CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS. > > > Paul Bolle > > [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=136398635322975 > -- Best regards Tianyu Lan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/