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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [MIPS] msp71xx: remove unused function
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:25:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091014232518.GA621@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2b2f2320910141616p7b53c898gc4bc6a75713d4a8e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:16:08PM -0600, Shane McDonald wrote:

> > Nobody calls the board-specific prom_getcmdline(), so let's remove it.
> >
> > Build-tested using msp71xx_defconfig.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
> >
> >
> NAK.  It is called by the MSP71xx's Ethernet driver, whose code has not yet
> made it into the mainline (last submission
> http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2007-05/msg00210.html).
> Believe it or not, getting that driver whipped into shape is something I'm
> slowly (very slowly) working on.

At a glance, it's not outrageously bad so I suggest you submit it to be
merged into drivers/staging it least it will no longer suffer the bitrot
that out of tree drivers suffer from.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14 19:02 [PATCH 0/3] A few cleanups for MIPS code Dmitri Vorobiev
2009-10-14 19:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] [MIPS] mipssim: remove unused code Dmitri Vorobiev
2009-10-15  9:49   ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-05 10:41   ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-05 12:09     ` [PATCH] [MIPS] Fix MIPSsim build after command-line cleanup Dmitri Vorobiev
2009-12-19 22:07       ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-20  5:03         ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2009-10-14 19:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] [MIPS] msp71xx: remove unused function Dmitri Vorobiev
2009-10-14 23:16   ` Shane McDonald
2009-10-14 23:25     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2009-10-15  3:57       ` Shane McDonald
2009-10-14 19:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] [MIPS] remove an unused header file Dmitri Vorobiev
2009-10-14 19:12   ` Manuel Lauss
2009-10-14 19:17     ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2009-10-14 19:37       ` Ralf Baechle

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