From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752333AbaBJBUT (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Feb 2014 20:20:19 -0500 Received: from cpsmtpb-ews01.kpnxchange.com ([213.75.39.4]:54086 "EHLO cpsmtpb-ews01.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751996AbaBJBUR (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Feb 2014 20:20:17 -0500 Message-ID: <1391995215.14955.10.camel@x220> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: multiplatform: remove reference to ARCH_MULTI_V4 From: Paul Bolle To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:20:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <201307141034.42868.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1373746191.1359.37.camel@x61.thuisdomein> <201307141034.42868.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.3 (3.10.3-1.fc20) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Feb 2014 01:20:15.0891 (UTC) FILETIME=[40F76630:01CF25FE] X-RcptDomain: vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 10:34 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 13 July 2013, Paul Bolle wrote: > > The Kconfig symbol ARCH_MULTI_V4 was removed in commit 24e860fbfd > > ("ARM: multiplatform: always pick one CPU type"). Remove the last > > reference to it too. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle > > --- > > 0) Untested. > > > > 1) Commit 24e860fbfd is silent on the reason to drop ARCH_MULTI_V4. And > > the ARM section of the Kconfig files is rather complicated for people, > > like me, that aren't familiar with the way the ARM universe is divided > > in architectures, machines, platforms, etc. That makes it hard to say > > whether ARCH_MULTI_V4 was dropped on purpose or by accident. > > It was dropped on purpose because it is unused in 3.11 but it will > be used again in 3.12, so I wouldn't bother with your patch. > > Thanks anyway for looking into unused symbols, I think checking for > unused code like this is very useful in general. We're now at v3.14-rc1 and ARCH_MULTI_V4 is still unused. Are there still plans to use it again? Paul Bolle