Re: [PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (USE_INTERNAL_TIMER)

[roel kluin]

> Â Â Â ÂAs part of the VAMOS[0] research project at the University of
> Erlangen we're checking referential integrity between kernel KConfig
> options and in-code Conditional blocks.
>
> Â Â Â ÂUSE_INTERNAL_TIMER is another candidate. As can be seen on the
> comment of the #undef instruction this part was quite likely never
> working and safeguards were added si it is never enabled.
>
> Â Â Â ÂPlease keep me informed of this patch getting confirmed /
> merged so we can keep track of it.
>
> Regards
>
> Â Â Â ÂChristoph Egger
>
> [0] http://vamos1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/
>
> ----
> From f027b61661aaac1fd58536e17894e486d5fb3d3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christoph Egger <siccegge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:11:16 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] USE_INTERNAL_TIMER explicitely #undef-ed and not in kconfig
>
> CONFIG_USE_INTERNAL_TIMER seems to be the remainings of some
> experiment. It is explicitely #undef-ed as not working, only
> referenced from one source file and rather aged.
>
> Hereby cleaning it from the kernel tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks correct to me,

Acked-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx>
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