Subject: Re: how best to report results of my kernel tree scanning scripts?
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:07:55 +0530
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Hello Robert,

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 08:16 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks for reporting these results, I will try to fix them and submit
patches with Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

Thanks,
--
JSR

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