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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc: remove unused "config BITS"
From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:06:47 +0100
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On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 12:33 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> We use this in the Makefile fragments, you cannot remove it.

>>From arch/sparc/Makefile:
    ifeq ($(CONFIG_SPARC32),y)
    [...]

    [...]
    export BITS    := 32
    [...]

    else
    [...]

    [...]
    export BITS   := 64
    [...]

So $(BITS) is set depending on whether CONFIG_SPARC32 is set or not.
Using $(BITS) in sparc's Makefiles is not using CONFIG_BITS. That
doesn't count as usage of "config BITS". 


Paul Bolle