Re: check kconfig

From: Blaisorblade
Date: Sat Aug 09 2008 - 13:08:05 EST


On sabato 26 luglio 2008, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> I ran your script, it still shows heaps of unused CONFIG_ defines in the
> kernel sources. Is anyone actually cleaning those up?
>
> tom
Sorry for late answer. I'm not working on this (and I've not time to work on
any kernel stuff, currently), as you might have guessed (even from the lack
of an answer).

You could maybe help yourself, and you could also suggest this task to
kernel-janitors (look for it on Google, it's a collection of simple tasks for
wannabe kernel hackers).

The problem is that cleaning up such stuff isn't always trivial, one must find
out why there is a mention of an unknown symbol, and fix the original
problem. If one discover that some source is never built, maybe the symbol
should be reintroduced. And so on.

Good bye and good luck
--
"Doh!" (cit.), I've made another mistake!
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

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