On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, David Daney wrote: > > So, just remove the dummy and dangerous definitions since they are no > > longer needed and reveals the correct dependencies. Tested on > > architectures using the definitions with allyesconfig: x86 (even with > > thp), hppa, mips, powerpc, s390, sh3, sh4, sparc, and sparc64, and > > with defconfig on ia64. > > > > This whole comment strikes me as somewhat dishonest, as at the time David > Rientjes wrote it, he knew that there were dependencies on these symbols in > the linux-next tree. > I was referring to Linus' tree at the time the patch was merged, not linux-next. However, yes, I was aware of the build breakage it caused in Ralf's mips tree and I sent a patch to fix that breakage to the mips folks: http://marc.info/?l=linux-mips&m=132175788803677 Thanks.
