Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: multiplatform: remove reference to ARCH_MULTI_V4 | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:34:42 +0200 |
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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 <pebolle@tiscali.nl> > --- > 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.
Arnd
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