Re: dead(?) i386-related CONFIG variables

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:

> On 7/5/2007 1:27 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   since it's not clear who a single contact person would be for
> > i386-related stuff like this, here's what my script turned up for
> > tests on non-existent CONFIG variables under arch/i386:
> >
> > ========== BALANCED_IRQ_DEBUG ==========
> > arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c:356:#ifdef CONFIG_BALANCED_IRQ_DEBUG
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_BALANCED_IRQ_DEBUG
> +#if 0 /* debug IRQ balancing */
>
> > ========== DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE ==========
> > arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:238:#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE
> +#if 0 /* debug page type */
>
> arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:339
>
> -#endif
> +#endif /* debug page type */
>
> > ========== SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ ==========
> > arch/i386/kernel/legacy_serial.c:18:#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ
>
> Hmm, not sure about this.  The code section was taken from
> include/asm-{i386,x86_64}/serial.h.  This is an option similar to other
> CONFIG_SERIAL_ options in numerous places.
>
> Serial drivers are orphaned, aren't they?

i can submit patches for the first two (i'll keep them separate since
they don't appear to be related enough to make a single patch out of
them).  and i'll wait to hear about that last one.

rday
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