Re: how to properly post/disseminate kernel cleanup/janitorialpossibilities?

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> > > Perhaps Jiri can pick up some of the patches that remove stale 
> > > config symbols, correct typos etc.
> > Absolutely. I'll happily apply anything trivial enough (typo fixes,
> > removal of obviously unused symbols/config options, etc).
>   the *problem* is that, sometimes, it's not obvious.  as in, when a
> Kconfig file has a pile of unused config options but it turns out that
> those were added for future consideration to match up with code that
> hasn't been added yet and the subsystem maintainer knows about it but
> wants it to stay (IMHO, a really bad idea -- adding kernel features in
> incomplete pieces, but whatever).

Hmm ... do you have any particular outstanding examples of this?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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