nfig = list(origconfig)
    config_size = os.stat('.config').st_size

    i = 0

    while i < len(config):
        print 'test for %r' % config[i]
        defconfig = open(defconfig_src, 'w')
        defconfig.writelines(config[:i])
        defconfig.writelines(config[i + 1:])
        defconfig.close()
        subprocess.check_call(['make', '-s', 'ARCH=%s' % arch, target])
        if os.stat('.config').st_size == config_size and list(open('.config')) == origconfig:
            del config[i]
        else:
            i += 1

    defconfig = open(defconfig_src, 'w')
    defconfig.writelines(config)
    defconfig.close()

which is pretty self-explanatory.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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