Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757496AbZFYOgR (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:36:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752695AbZFYOgG (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:36:06 -0400 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:38449 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752119AbZFYOgF (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:36:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:34:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: next cleanup report: "bad" references to CONFIG variables Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1685 Lines: 40 here's the next cleanup report that's well underway -- "bad" references to CONFIG variables that don't exist in any Kconfig file: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Badref_CONFIG_variables (currently, only the arch/ and drivers/ directories have been updated -- the rest should be done shortly.) in a nutshell, that's a list of references to variables of the form CONFIG_*, where there is no such variable defined anywhere in a Kconfig file. some possible reasons for that: 1) leftover historical cruft 2) simple typo 3) someone's added code without adding the Kconfig infrastructure for it (annoyingly, there appears to be quite a lot of that) 4) someone likes to name their macros with a "CONFIG_" prefix just to pollute the Kconfig namespace (argh) in any event, it's all there (some of it starting to look awfully familiar as the years go by). as always, ignore the false positives. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- 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/