Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ACPI: remove unused ACPI_PROCFS Kconfig param | From | Paul Bolle <> | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:27:35 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 07:22 +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > [...] CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS is no longer used anywhere, neither in > Makefiles nor in the source code. ACPI_PROCFS isn't event used in > Kconfig files as an intermediate dependency. > > What I deduce from that is that even if you set CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y in > the kernel configuration, this will have no impact at all.
About half a year ago I noticed that this Kconfig symbol is unused since v2.6.38 [0]. As, apparently, nothing has changed it is currently unused for over two and a half years.
I still don't really understand the purpose of this symbol. But whatever it is, it might as well be dropped. If it's ever needed again it could be re-added. Or, perhaps, an entirely different approach could be used to accomplish what that symbol is supposed to do.
Paul Bolle
[0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=136398635322975
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