From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to properly post/disseminate kernel cleanup/janitorial possibilities?
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:01:12 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0904291400200.5012@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904280619590.16989@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > Perhaps Jiri can pick up some of the patches that remove stale
> > > config symbols, correct typos etc.
> > Absolutely. I'll happily apply anything trivial enough (typo fixes,
> > removal of obviously unused symbols/config options, etc).
> the *problem* is that, sometimes, it's not obvious. as in, when a
> Kconfig file has a pile of unused config options but it turns out that
> those were added for future consideration to match up with code that
> hasn't been added yet and the subsystem maintainer knows about it but
> wants it to stay (IMHO, a really bad idea -- adding kernel features in
> incomplete pieces, but whatever).
Hmm ... do you have any particular outstanding examples of this?
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-29 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-27 20:46 Robert P. J. Day
2009-04-27 21:05 ` Bill Gatliff
2009-04-27 22:20 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-04-28 8:25 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-04-28 10:31 ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-04-29 12:01 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2009-04-29 13:44 ` Robert P. J. Day
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