Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:33:47 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Cross-referencing frenzy |
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Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>: > Could you make a list that splits the symbols up by each of the above > failure conditions? It would make the task of deciding how to fix the > "problem" more apparent.
There are 32 possible categories. I need to eyeball them and decide which ones are significant.
> Also, it appears that some of the symbols you are matching are only in > documentation (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). I would start with: > > *.[chS] Config.in Makefile Configure.help
There should be few enough of these to fit on one screen. Over 700 dead symbols indicates a larger problem.
> However, I'm not sure that your reasoning for removing these is correct. > For example, one symbol that I saw was CONFIG_EXT2_CHECK, which is code > that used to be enabled in the kernel, but is currently #ifdef'd out with > the above symbol. When Ted changed this, he wasn't sure whether we would > need the code again in the future. I enable it sometimes when I'm doing > ext2 development, but it may not be worthy of a separate config option > that 99.9% of people will just be confused about.
I think things like that don't belong in the CONFIG_ namespace to begin with. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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