Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.13 089/212] ACPI: Remove Kconfig symbol ACPI_PROCFS | From | Kamal Mostafa <> | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:41:14 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 00:26 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > Kamal, > > On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 14:43 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > > 3.13.11.4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> > > > > commit 7919010c4224e07b871f3b5513d245cc029fcd67 upstream. > > > > Nothing cares about ACPI_PROCFS. This has been the case since v2.6.38. > > This Kconfig symbol serves no purpose and its help text is now > > misleading. It can safely be removed. If this symbol would be needed > > again in the future it can be readded in a commit that adds code that > > actually uses it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> > > [ kamal: 3.13-stable prereq for > > e2a7c3d ACPI: Revert "ACPI: Remove CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER and cm_sbsc.c" ] > > I'm curious: how can this patch - which is straightforward cleanup, > without any further impact - be a prerequisite for a revert, or anything > else, for that matter?
Hi Paul-
Pulling in this cleanup patch allowed me to cleanly cherry-pick e2a7c3d. Yes, it would have been possible to massage e2a7c3d into applying but just cherry-picking both yields a cleaner end result, so that's what I opted to do for this case.
-Kamal
> > Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> > > > Paul Bolle >
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