On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Ahmad Jbara wrote: > Hello, We know that default configurations for the different archs > are given by defconfig files. I see that some of the options in the > defconfig files are not occur in the Kconfig files. why ? sometimes, CONFIG options are removed from Kconfig files but they're not simultaneously removed from the defconfig files because that would just be redundant. as i recall, the defconfig files are eventually rebuilt, at which point those redundant values would be removed. in the meantime, they're not doing any damage. if you're interested, i regularly run a set of kernel source scanning scripts i've written and post the results. if you're interested, i document such things here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup and the scripts themselves are here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup_scripts some day, i'll probably rewrite those scripts and bring them up to date, but they seem to work pretty well so far. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ