Re: [PATCH] Remove remaining references of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:36, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Zoltan Devai wrote:
>> Commit 592913ecb87a9e06f98ddb55b298f1a66bf94c6b has killed off any
>> use of this config option long ago.
>
> I don't see the point of this - we were free of GENERIC_TIME on ARM
> shortly after it was originally killed off. ÂThe problem is you can't
> stop people introducing new uses of this - because it existed once and
> there's nothing which errors out on its presence, people are going to
> continue submitting patches with it in. ÂAnd it's going to continue
> being missed at the review stage.
>
> I've a similar problem with folk on ARM including mach/gpio.h as their
> sole gpio header file rather than linux/gpio.h - I've been trying for
> the last 1-2 years to educate people to use linux/ in preference. ÂYou
> can't do it, and I'm still just about the only one who picks up on that.
> (SoC maintainers don't care.) ÂThey will end up caring when I push a
> change during the next merge window though, so I'll eventually stop
> mach/gpio.h being included. Â(Instead, it'll be asm/gpio.h).
>
> GENERIC_TIME though... I don't think you'll ever stop new uses of it
> creeping in unless you can arrange for something to error out.

Doesn't kconf error out when trying to select a non-existent symbol?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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