Re: how best to report results of my kernel tree scanning scripts?

From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Date: Sat Sep 26 2009 - 08:38:25 EST


Hello Robert,

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 08:16 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> since the merge window appears to be ready to close fairly soon(?),
> i'm prepping to run my scanning scripts once again to identify (among
> other things):
>
> * unused Kconfig CONFIG variables
> * references to CONFIG_ variables that don't even exist (both in
> source files and Makefiles)
> * references to non-existent header files
>
> and bunches of other things. i'm open as to the best way to post the
> results, since different people have different opinions.
>
> and, no, i can't just submit patches since, in many cases, i have no
> idea what the fix should be (if any) -- that's the kind of decision
> best left to the respective subsystem maintainers.
>
> thoughts? this is where i put the old output:
>
> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup
>

Thanks for reporting these results, I will try to fix them and submit
patches with Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
--
JSR

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