On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 03:21:32PM +0000, Andrey Zhizhikin wrote:
> Since the removal of generic_bl driver from the source tree in commit
> 7ecdea4a0226 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it is
> unused") BACKLIGHT_GENERIC config option became obsolete as well and
> therefore subject to clean-up from all configuration files.
>
> This series introduces patches to address this removal, separated by
> architectures in the kernel tree.
>
> Andrey Zhizhikin (5):
> ARM: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
> arm64: defconfig: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
> MIPS: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
> parisc: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
> powerpc/configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
For defconfigs I expect arch maintainers to do a make xxxdefconfig / make
savedefconfig / cp defconfig ... run now and then - this will remove
all such symbols.
If the patches goes in like they are submitted then:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> arch/arm/configs/at91_dt_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/cm_x300_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/colibri_pxa300_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/jornada720_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/magician_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/mini2440_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/pxa3xx_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/sama5_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/sunxi_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 1 -
> arch/mips/configs/gcw0_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/mips/configs/gpr_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/mips/configs/lemote2f_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/mips/configs/loongson3_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/mips/configs/mtx1_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/mips/configs/rs90_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/parisc/configs/generic-64bit_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/powerpc/configs/powernv_defconfig | 1 -
> 22 files changed, 22 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: b65054597872ce3aefbc6a666385eabdf9e288da
> prerequisite-patch-id: bfd382cf1dc021d20204f10ea9403319c1c32b12
> prerequisite-patch-id: 5397c0c8648bb3e0b830207ea867138c11c6e644
> prerequisite-patch-id: a3c284dff5fe6d02828918a886db6a8ed3197e20
> --
> 2.17.1
