Keith Owens wrote:
> That just leaves the 17 names of the form CONFIG_[0-9]*. Only the 8139
> is likely to affect outside the kernel and the argument that renaming
> config options might affect external packages does not hold. The
> recent aic7xxx change broke pcmcia on 2.2 kernels but we can work round
> it.
There is no good reason to restrict the CML2 identifier namespace.
This is a policy change not a cleanup.
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