Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755241Ab0KZQ3j (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:29:39 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:53944 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752160Ab0KZQ3h (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:29:37 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:29:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost6.localdomain6 To: Michal Marek cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , David Woodhouse , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Unused config options in drivers/mtd (Re: running my kernel scanning scripts on your favourite part of the tree) In-Reply-To: <4CEE8B70.4070500@suse.cz> Message-ID: References: <4CEE8B70.4070500@suse.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 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: 1579 Lines: 40 On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Michal Marek wrote: > CC the mtd maintainer and mailinglist and adjusted subject. Robert, you > should report such bugs to the maintainer / author of the code in > question, otherwise your mail might end up unnoticed on LKML. > > Michal {sigh}. the point of my earlier post was not specifically to point out unused kernel config vars in the MTD code; rather, it was to suggest that anyone who's interested can run my scanning scripts to locate such things for themselves in their favourite subsystem(s) -- i simply used the MTD code as a working example. and, BTW, there are still dead config variables in the code that go back *several* major versions, even though i've documented them just as many times here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup so if you're curious, the scripts are here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup_scripts rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/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/