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From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Following up
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:34:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201028053423.GA1205528@PWN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uH9L9WHBndEnUhAMMh0KsKUcz2zfKdi250gVqJGEG6usQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:36:54PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:50 PM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com> wrote:
> >     ...you mentioned code search, where & what should we look at, in order
> >     to confirm it's safe to remove them?
> 
> Way back there was google's code search, which was awesome. Now I just
> put the structure name/ioctl #define/number into
> google/bing/duckduckgo and see if anything turns up. Plus check how
> it's used in fb tools (although I just recently learned that fb-test
> pretty much disappeared from the internet, very hard to find the
> original).
> 
> If you're unsure, we can merge a patch, then wait about 1 year for any
> users to show up with problems. If that's not the case, assume they're
> all gone, or it was never used and just implemented because it was
> copied from somewhere else, or "just in case". There's lots of dead
> uapi around.

I see, it will be my next thing to do. Hopefully this will remove a lot
of console_font occurrences.

Peilin


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-29  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-27 16:27 [PATCH 0/5] Preparation work for using font_desc in vc_data Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 16:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] fbdev/atafb: Remove unused extern variables Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 16:33   ` [PATCH 2/5] Fonts: Make font size unsigned in font_desc Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 16:34     ` [PATCH 3/5] Fonts: Add charcount field to font_desc Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 16:37       ` [PATCH 4/5] fbcon: Avoid hard-coding built-in font charcount Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 16:41         ` [PATCH 5/5] parisc/sticore: " Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 19:18           ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-27 19:13         ` [PATCH 4/5] fbcon: " Daniel Vetter
2020-10-28  5:30           ` Peilin Ye
2020-10-28 15:51         ` [PATCH RFC v2 4/5] fbdev: Avoid using FNTCHARCNT() and hard-coded " Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 18:59       ` [PATCH 3/5] Fonts: Add charcount field to font_desc Daniel Vetter
2020-10-28  6:11         ` Peilin Ye
2020-10-28  6:05       ` [PATCH 3/5 v2] " Peilin Ye
2020-11-02 15:03         ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-27 18:50     ` [PATCH 2/5] Fonts: Make font size unsigned in font_desc Daniel Vetter
2020-10-28  5:43       ` Peilin Ye
2020-10-28  8:18         ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-28 10:30           ` Peilin Ye
2020-10-28 10:56     ` [PATCH v2 " Peilin Ye
2020-10-28 18:40       ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-27 18:44   ` [PATCH 1/5] fbdev/atafb: Remove unused extern variables Daniel Vetter
2020-10-28  9:59   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-28 19:25   ` Thomas Zimmermann
2020-10-27 16:50 ` Following up Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 18:36   ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-28  5:34     ` Peilin Ye [this message]
2020-11-02 15:01 ` [PATCH 0/5] Preparation work for using font_desc in vc_data Daniel Vetter

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