The entire file blames back to the start of git
(minus whitespace from the RST translation and a typo fix):
* there are changelog comments for March 1994 through to Linux 2.5.74
* struct tty_ldisc is two pointers nowadays, so naturally no magic
* GDA_MAGIC is defined but unused, and it's been this way
since start-of-git
* M3_CARD_MAGIC isn't defined, because
commit d56b9b9c46 ("[PATCH] The scheduled removal of some OSS
drivers") removed the entire driver in 2006
* CS_CARD_MAGIC likewise since
commit b5d425c97f ("more scheduled OSS driver removal") in 2007
* KMALLOC_MAGIC and VMALLOC_MAGIC were removed in
commit e38e0cfa48 ("[ALSA] Remove kmalloc wrappers"),
six months after start of git
* SLAB_C_MAGIC has never even appeared in git
(removed in 2.4.0-test3pre6)
magic-number.rst is a low-value historial relic at best and
misleading cruft at worst, so start with cleaning out ones that only
appear therein
Automated:
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag" | grep -vq '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' ||
sed -i "/^$mag/d" \
Documentation/{,translations/{zh_CN,zh_TW,it_IT}/}process/magic-number.rst
done
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8389a7b85b5c660c6891b1740b5dacc53491a41b.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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