Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: strip 15,000 lines from a typical autoconf.h

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Apr 11 2012 - 19:58:58 EST


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit ce1744f4ed20ca8 seems to endorse C users of IS_ENABLED, and
> it went through Linus and Andrew, so I'm not sure scrapping C users
> as a solution will be universally agreeable...

I think we can easily drop IS_ENABLED() if it has been causing
problems. And it clearly is.

And I had never even looked at that generated file. It's disgusting.
We need to stop doing that. It must be driving compile-times up too -
just parsing that monster is RealWork(tm).

Linus
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