Re: 2.6.0-test8 - CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE

From: James Simmons
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 13:08:04 EST



I have had the question. It appears to be dead code. unless someone speaks
up I will remove that code.


On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> in drivers/video/console/Kconfig, we have:
>
> config PCI_CONSOLE
> bool
> depends on FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
> default y
>
> However, it's unclear what this variable actually *DOES*:
>
> [/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test8-mm1-a]2 find . ! -name '*.o' | xargs grep PCI_CONS
> ./drivers/video/console/Kconfig:config PCI_CONSOLE
> ./arch/ppc/configs/power3_defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/ppc/configs/common_defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/ppc/configs/sandpoint_defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/ppc/configs/ibmchrp_defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/ppc/configs/pmac_defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/ppc/defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/sparc64/defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/ia64/defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/ppc64/defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./arch/parisc/defconfig:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./.config.old:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
> ./config.old:CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
>
> References in defconfig files, and in my .config, and that's about it...
>
> It's been apparently dead code at least as far back as -test5-mm3.
>

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