Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:46:08 +0200 (MEST) | From | Armin Schindler <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Dead symbol elimination, stage 1 |
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > The following patch cleans dead symbols out of the defconfigs in the 2.4.4pre4 > > source tree. It corrects a typo involving CONFIG_GEN_RTC. Another typo > > involving CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI doesn't need to be corrected, as the symbol > > is never set in these files. > > While I think your work CONFIG_ cleanup is generally a good idea and will > remove a lot of cruft, I don't think the defconfigs are worth the effort > (but maybe I'm missing something). > > First, they are only used as defaults, and any inconsistency should get > cleaned up before the user even sees it. > > Second, removing dead entries is not all which is needed to get a > defconfig which is necessarily consistent. So if you want to have these, > why don't you do a > > cp arch/$ARCH/defconfig .config > make oldconfig > > AFAICS, this should remove old cruft and provide a .config (to be used as > defconfig) which is consistent with the current config.in's. > > > Anyway, I put together a patch which should clean up some issues which I > was reminded of because of your work in the ISDN subsystem. I appended it, > I hope the maintainer of the Eicon code (Armin) will clean up the missing > Configure.help entries for his drivers.
Oops, thanks for the hint. I only sent the patch for 2.2. I appended it for 2.4 and already send it to Linus.
Armin
--- Documentation/Configure.help_orig Sat Apr 21 13:19:11 2001 +++ Documentation/Configure.help Sat Apr 21 13:23:55 2001 @@ -15447,11 +15447,16 @@ latest isdn4k-utils package. Please read the file Documentation/isdn/README.eicon for more information.
+Eicon legacy driver +CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_EICON_OLD + Say Y here to use your Eicon active ISDN card with ISDN4Linux + isdn module. + Eicon Diva Server card support CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_EICON_PCI Say Y here if you have an Eicon Diva Server (BRI/PRI/4BRI) ISDN card. Please read Documentation/isdn/README.eicon for more information. - + Eicon old-type card support CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_EICON_ISA Say Y here if you have an old-type Eicon active ISDN card. In order @@ -15461,7 +15466,7 @@ Documentation/isdn/README.eicon for more information.
Eicon driver type standalone -CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_EICON_STANDALONE +CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_EICON_DIVAS Enable this option if you want the eicon driver as standalone version with no interface to the ISDN4Linux isdn module. If you say Y here, the eicon module only supports the Diva Server PCI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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