From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752606AbZIZMiM (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752246AbZIZMiM (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:38:12 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:37484 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752175AbZIZMiL (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:38:11 -0400 Subject: Re: how best to report results of my kernel tree scanning scripts? From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:07:55 +0530 Message-Id: <1253968675.4568.3.camel@ht.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-2.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Robert, On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 08:16 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > since the merge window appears to be ready to close fairly soon(?), > i'm prepping to run my scanning scripts once again to identify (among > other things): > > * unused Kconfig CONFIG variables > * references to CONFIG_ variables that don't even exist (both in > source files and Makefiles) > * references to non-existent header files > > and bunches of other things. i'm open as to the best way to post the > results, since different people have different opinions. > > and, no, i can't just submit patches since, in many cases, i have no > idea what the fix should be (if any) -- that's the kind of decision > best left to the respective subsystem maintainers. > > thoughts? this is where i put the old output: > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup > Thanks for reporting these results, I will try to fix them and submit patches with Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day Thanks, -- JSR