[parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > What is the right procedure for doing changes like this?  Is "don't
> > touch that tree" a permanent condition, or am I going to get a chance
> > to clean up the global CONFIG_ namespace after your next merge-down?
> 
> Feeding arch related stuff to the architecture maintainers.

I shall attempt it.

> > That's the main thing I'm after right now -- I want to cut down on
> > the false positives in my orphaned-symbol reports so that the actual
> > bugs will stand out.
> 
> Teach it to read a 'symbolstoignore' file.

Someone else has already pointed out that this is not a solution that will
scale well.  It would substitute a continuing management headache for the
cleanup that's really needed.  In fact I'm reluctant to do this even for 
cases where it's clearly legitimate (CONFIG_BOOM, CONFIG_BOGUS :-)) partly
because later on it might provide an excuse for people not to do the cleanup.

> Part of the problem you are hitting right now is that most
> architectures are not yet fully in sync with 2.4 nor likely to all
> be for another few iterations.

Understood.  I'll do what I can in the architecture-independent code, then.
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