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From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: Remove rtw_mfree_all_stainfo()
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:47:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4588980.OG3HjkdD0c@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <406c6f84-a2f6-1a0e-3a52-9406df41973c@lwfinger.net>

On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 8:10:37 PM CEST Larry Finger wrote:
> On 8/4/21 10:09 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> 
> []
>
> After looking at the original code for several other drivers, routine
> rtw_mfree_stainfo() just ends up calling a couple of routines that free a
> spinlock. That operation for Windows and FreeBSD is not trivial, but for 
Linux,
> the routine does nothing. Thus, despite its name, rtw_mfree_stainfo() does 
not
> free anything, and it can be deleted.
> 
> The original patch is
> 
> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> 
> Larry

Larry, 

Thanks for looking at that routine and acking my patch,

Fabio




      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-05 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-02  0:55 [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: Remove rtw_mfree_all_stainfo() Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-04 13:01 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-08-04 15:12   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
     [not found]   ` <CAP71bdUDEX=B6Km9wZO1AyHpVzqqkGNw6xNvspBz3qUABSKMEQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-08-04 18:10     ` Larry Finger
2021-08-05 10:28       ` Dan Carpenter
2021-08-05 11:47       ` Fabio M. De Francesco [this message]

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