Re: almost time to run my kernel source cleaning scripts again?

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Wed Apr 11 2012 - 20:46:43 EST


On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, David Daney wrote:

> On 04/11/2012 02:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > it's been a while so i was thinking of firing up my scripts to
> > peruse the source tree looking for oddities/inconsistencies/whatever
> > (unless someone else is already doing that).
> >
> > one example is looking for preprocessor tests of symbols that aren't
> > defined in any Kconfig file, and i can focus on any part of the source
> > tree. for example, if i run that script against drivers/mmc, i get:
> [...]
> >
> > > > > > > CAVIUM_OCTEON_NUM_PACKET_BUFFERS
> > drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-defines.h:36: *
> > CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_NUM_PACKET_BUFFERS
> > drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c:56:#if
> > defined(CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_NUM_PACKET_BUFFERS) \
> > drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c:57: &&
> > CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_NUM_PACKET_BUFFERS
> > drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c:58:int num_packet_buffers =
> > CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_NUM_PACKET_BUFFERS;
>
> I am aware of these and am working on fixing them.

sorry, i wasn't trying to pick on anyone, it was just a random
example.

rday

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