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SubjectRe: [PATCH 24/28] Remove DEPRECATED
Am 10.02.2014 09:49, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
>> Am 09.02.2014 21:15, schrieb Paul Bolle:
>>> On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 21:04 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>> Am 09.02.2014 20:38, schrieb Paul Bolle:
>>>>> But now you've enabled a lot of stuff that, as far as I can tell, could
>>>>> not have been built since v2.6.39.
>>>>
>>>> This is by design. If the code does not build/work it needs to be fixed or removed.
>>>
>>> If that was the design goal of this patch (and similar patches you've
>>> sent) it would have been proper to at least say a few words along those
>>> lines in the commit explanation.
>>
>> I assumed that every kernel developer is aware of that fact that unreachable/dead code
>> should be removed.
>
> Yes, it should be removed.
>
> But that's not what you did. You did the Kconfig-equivalent of removing a
> "#if 0" in a C source file, which causes havoc.

Fair point. I'll remove that code in v2.
Hopefully I can catch all breakage on my testbed as many archs/configs are involved.

Thanks,
//richard


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