Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753395Ab0GNNaU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:30:20 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:38797 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750959Ab0GNNaS (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:30:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:15:27 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Ivo Van Doorn Cc: Christoph Egger , Gertjan van Wingerde , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Felix Fietkau , Helmut Schaa , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vamos-dev@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, Luis Correia Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] Removing dead RT2800PCI_SOC Message-ID: <20100714131527.GB2352@tuxdriver.com> References: <29013fb6eab9e95e95d61df894797d2455dfa10c.1279110894.git.siccegge@cs.fau.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1509 Lines: 35 On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:52:14PM +0200, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Luis Correia wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 13:39, Christoph Egger wrote: > >> While RT2800PCI_SOC exists in Kconfig, it depends on either > >> RALINK_RT288X or RALINK_RT305X which are both not available in Kconfig > >> so all Code depending on that can't ever be selected and, if there's > >> no plan to add these options, should be cleaned up > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger > > > > NAK, > > > > this is not dead code, it is needed for the Ralink System-on-Chip > > Platform devices. > > > > While I can't fix Kconfig errors and the current KConfig file may be > > wrong, this code cannot and will not be deleted. > > When the config option was introduced, the config options RALINK_RT288X and > RALINK_RT305X were supposed to be merged as well soon after by somebody (Felix?) > > But since testing is done on SoC boards by Helmut and Felix, I assume the code > isn't dead but actually in use. Perhaps Helmut and Felix can send us the missing code? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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/