Re: [RFC] Removal of CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat May 05 2018 - 11:50:54 EST


On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:17 AM Masahiro Yamada <
yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My question is,
> is it OK to remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX entirely?

Absolutely. Let's not keep legacy stuff that complicates things around
unless necessary.

Even if there might be some unlikely future reason why it might be revived
some day, let's not use "what if" as an argument to keep unused code around.

Linus