Hi all! As part of the VAMOS[0] research project at the University of Erlangen we are looking at multiple integrity errors in linux' configuration system. I've been running a check on the arch/mips sourcetree for config Items not defined in Kconfig and found 5 such cases. Sourcecode blocks depending on these Items are not reachable from a vanilla kernel -- dead code. I've seen such dead blocks made on purpose e.g. while integrating new features into the kernel but generally they're just useless. Each of the patches in this patchset removes on such dead config Item, I'd be glad if you consider applying them. I've been doing deeper analysis of such issues before and can do so again but I'm not so sure they were fastly usefull. However I've done a testbuild on mips (cross compile from x86) with allmodconfig which didn't show any regressions (mainline does fail at the same spots) Please keep me informed of this patch getting confirmed / merged so we can keep track of it. Regards Christoph Egger [0] http://vamos1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/ Christoph Egger (9): Removing dead CONFIG_SOC_AU1000_FREQUENCY Removing dead CONFIG_GDB_CONSOLE Removing dead CONFIG_SIBYTE_BCM1480_PROF Removing dead CONFIG_MTD_PB1550_BOOT, CONFIG_MTD_PB1550_USER Removing dead CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE Removing dead CONFIG_I2C_PNX0105 Removing dead CONFIG_PMCTWILED Removing dead CONFIG_DIAGNOSTICS Removing dead CONFIG_MTD_PMC_MSP_RAMROOT arch/mips/alchemy/common/clocks.c | 4 - arch/mips/cavium-octeon/serial.c | 4 - arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c | 4 - arch/mips/include/asm/mach-pb1x00/pb1550.h | 8 -- .../mips/include/asm/pmc-sierra/msp71xx/msp_prom.h | 4 - arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-setup.c | 25 ------- arch/mips/nxp/pnx833x/common/platform.c | 73 -------------------- arch/mips/pmc-sierra/msp71xx/msp_hwbutton.c | 11 --- arch/mips/pmc-sierra/yosemite/irq.c | 4 - arch/mips/powertv/powertv_setup.c | 6 -- arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c | 11 --- 11 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)