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Subject[PATCH 0/7] Put "Kernel hacking" Kconfig menu on a diet
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Linus, I've tried to send these along to a couple of different
maintainers for a couple of merge windows, but so far nobody has
bitten.

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I think the "Kernel Hacking" menu has gotten a bit out of hand. It
is over 120 lines long on my system with everything enabled and
options are scattered around it haphazardly.

http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/kconfig-horror.png

Let's try to introduce some sanity. This set takes that 120 lines
down to 55 and makes it vastly easier to find some things. It's a
start.

This set stands on its own, but there is plenty of room for follow-up
patches. The arch-specific debug options still end up getting stuck
in the top-level "kernel hacking" menu. OPTIMIZE_INLINING, for
instance, could obviously go in to the "compiler options" menu, but
the fact that it is defined in arch/ in a separate Kconfig file keeps
it on its own for the moment.

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There is a fair amount of churn in the areas around these patches
so I've resolved conflicts a couple of times. For the patches that
are almost purely code move patches, I'm doing this:

cat foo.patch | grep '^[-+]' | perl -pe 's/^.//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

and watching for any non-even numbers coming out of uniq. This
helps me make sure I'm not adding/removing code that I should not
be.

The Signed-off-by's in here look funky. I changed employers
while working on this set, so I have signoffs from both email
addresses. Here's the original posting:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121217182206.91AA150A@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com



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