On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 17:17 -0500, David Miller wrote:

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:17:25 -0800

quoted

That seems an odd workflow as it leaves dangling CONFIG_<foo>
options set, but I guess it doesn't hurt so here it is.

As you said it's harmless, and more importantly it avoids
unnecessary conflicts.

quoted

I just removed the modified arch/.../<foo>defconfig files.

Something is not right here:

[davem@drr net-next]$ git am --signoff V2-wanrouter-Remove-it-and-the-drivers-that-depend-on-it.patch 
Applying: wanrouter: Remove it and the drivers that depend on it
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: net/wanrouter/Kconfig: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: net/wanrouter/Makefile: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: net/wanrouter/patchlevel: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: net/wanrouter/wanmain.c: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: net/wanrouter/wanproc.c: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: drivers/net/wan/cycx_drv.c: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: drivers/net/wan/cycx_main.c: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: drivers/net/wan/cycx_x25.c: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: include/linux/cyclomx.h: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: include/linux/cycx_drv.h: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: include/linux/wanrouter.h: patch does not apply
error: removal patch leaves file contents
error: include/uapi/linux/wanrouter.h: patch does not apply

Right, that is unexpected/odd/interesting.

I was trying to save mailing list bandwidth by reducing
the patch size.

I generated this with
	$ git format-patch -M -D
but it doesn't apply here either. :(

Using
	$ git format-patch -M
does apply correctly.

It's quite a bit larger though. (120KB vs 14)
I'll send the large patch just to netdev.

Joe