Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752566AbZIZMQL (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:16:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752345AbZIZMQK (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:16:10 -0400 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:48509 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbZIZMQJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:16:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:16:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: how best to report results of my kernel tree scanning scripts? 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: 1449 Lines: 37 since the merge window appears to be ready to close fairly soon(?), i'm prepping to run my scanning scripts once again to identify (among other things): * unused Kconfig CONFIG variables * references to CONFIG_ variables that don't even exist (both in source files and Makefiles) * references to non-existent header files and bunches of other things. i'm open as to the best way to post the results, since different people have different opinions. and, no, i can't just submit patches since, in many cases, i have no idea what the fix should be (if any) -- that's the kind of decision best left to the respective subsystem maintainers. thoughts? this is where i put the old output: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca 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/