From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A281C433E7 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2020 00:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CAD22253 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2020 00:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="eaDC8Yd7" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726547AbgJIAJ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2020 20:09:28 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33450 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726293AbgJIAJ1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2020 20:09:27 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1231::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95419C0613D2 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2020 17:09:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=merlin.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=4sXecF8r5E3WCmY0rts+z9kjTXQrZiIXc+J/I8uctk0=; b=eaDC8Yd7S8FVOHiuJkjm7Pa+nE r08483eQjNVcEmLvR0gNJsaqJz3sAhFvWE1wlHU6HLsu0J2rb6lU2C8EXDHIQ9ZrCnRMm2AQ8RaU/ O8NxqeCu0Fd1jQc9x4PC2Oyuw4lOLYHX6w1mQHp0f920SYLcHt0fQEdTk005wXXPvzebnboTb5NDz hQoEXdXdP741xAhEJ82GgDnZJd0HtBLVrZy5UW+s1bjqAzgvZPPiE4W44SzgDCPw+UPO4CiXPkZUX uoVuUzAETNi5CCfL9BjV1On8V8BteExG9f+2oBs3AwdnQYK3uF1MtrqnBjRhAEBjN2fBQ60hN6NlT JWs7yRnA==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::2c9a] by merlin.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kQfyN-0000IP-3f; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:09:23 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] scripts: remove namespace.pl To: Jacob Keller , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masahiro Yamada , Jakub Kicinski References: <20201008232559.2866491-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <0bff6c13-bcf1-4854-dc12-826979f24ed5@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 17:09:19 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201008232559.2866491-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On 10/8/20 4:25 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: [snip] > However, given the discussion at [2], I suspect that few people are > actively using this tool. It doesn't have a maintainer in the > MAINTAINERS flie, and it produces so many warnings for unused symbols > that it is difficult to use effectively. Thus, I propose we simply > remove it. Agreed. I don't see any evidence that anyone is using it. Goodbye. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Thanks. > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200708164812.384ae8ea@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/ > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190129204319.15238-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com/ > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190828.154744.2058157956381129672.davem@davemloft.net/ > [4] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190827210928.576c5fef@cakuba.netronome.com/ > > Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller > Cc: Masahiro Yamada > Cc: Randy Dunlap > Cc: Jakub Kicinski > --- > Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst | 3 +- > Makefile | 6 +- > scripts/namespace.pl | 473 --------------------- > 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 480 deletions(-) > delete mode 100755 scripts/namespace.pl -- ~Randy