[PATCH 0/7] Put "Kernel hacking" Kconfig menu on a diet

[Dave Hansen]

Linus, I've tried to send these along to a couple of different
maintainers for a couple of merge windows, but so far nobody has
bitten.

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I think the "Kernel Hacking" menu has gotten a bit out of hand.  It
is over 120 lines long on my system with everything enabled and
options are scattered around it haphazardly.

        http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/kconfig-horror.png

Let's try to introduce some sanity.  This set takes that 120 lines
down to 55 and makes it vastly easier to find some things.  It's a
start.

This set stands on its own, but there is plenty of room for follow-up
patches.  The arch-specific debug options still end up getting stuck
in the top-level "kernel hacking" menu.  OPTIMIZE_INLINING, for
instance, could obviously go in to the "compiler options" menu, but
the fact that it is defined in arch/ in a separate Kconfig file keeps
it on its own for the moment.

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There is a fair amount of churn in the areas around these patches
so I've resolved conflicts a couple of times.  For the patches that
are almost purely code move patches, I'm doing this:

	cat foo.patch | grep '^[-+]' | perl -pe 's/^.//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

and watching for any non-even numbers coming out of uniq.  This
helps me make sure I'm not adding/removing code that I should not
be.

The Signed-off-by's in here look funky.  I changed employers
while working on this set, so I have signoffs from both email
addresses.  Here's the original posting:

	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121217182206.91AA150A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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