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SubjectRe: [PATCH] MIPS: BCM1480: remove checks for CONFIG_SIBYTE_BCM1480_PROF
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:24:19AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:

> There are two checks for CONFIG_SIBYTE_BCM1480_PROF in the tree since
> v2.6.15. The related Kconfig symbol has never been added to the tree. So
> these checks have always evaluated to false. Besides, one of these
> checks guards a call of sbprof_cpu_intr(). But that function is not
> defined. Remove all this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
> ---
> Untested.
>
> Until v2.6.23 there also were checks for CONFIG_SIBYTE_SB1250_PROF in
> the tree. There also was a Kconfig symbol SIBYTE_SB1250_PROF so it was
> possible to make these checks evaluate to true. But, since one of these
> checks also guarded a call of sbprof_cpu_intr(), that should have made
> the build fail with an error.

The Sibyte profiling was far inferior to later solutions such as oprofile
or perf and non-standard anyway. So let's kill what's left over.

Ralf


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