Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:14:10 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove remaining references of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME |
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:36, Russell King - ARM Linux > <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> 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. The 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. And 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. You > > can't do it, and I'm still just about the only one who picks up on that. > > (SoC maintainers don't care.) They 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. (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?
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