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SubjectRe: [kbuild-devel] Dead symbol elimination, stage 1
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
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