[PATCH v4] ARM: mvebu: remove two selects of ARM_ERRATA_753970

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jan 19 03:39:44 PST 2015


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:32:17AM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> ARM_ERRATA_753970 was renamed to PL310_ERRATA_753970 in v3.2, through
> commit fa0ce4035d48 ("ARM: 7162/1: errata: tidy up Kconfig options for
> PL310 errata workarounds"). Still, two selects were added in v3.15 that
> used the previous name. So these selects have always been nops.
> 
> It is clear that the intention here was to select PL310_ERRATA_753970.
> But as, apparently, nothing broke for four releases we can assume
> PL310_ERRATA_753970 isn't actually needed. So let's not rename these two
> selects but just drop them instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl>
> ---
> v4: Do no bother anymore to rename these selects. I've tried to do that
> a few times ever since v3.15-rc1 was released. Last time, v3, was in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/12/231 . And since the people who
> intruduced this issue apparently aren't bothered by it, neither should
> I. So just do the safe and easy thing, which is removing these two
> selects, as they are nops now.

It's really for those who introduced these select statements to decide
what they want to do about them - but in principle, I'd agree with you.

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