Re: [PATCH 11/11] tty: serial: 8250: Delete commented code

[Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>]

Hi Anton,

On 12/16/2015 07:36 AM, Anton Wuerfel wrote:
> This patch removes code which has been commented out. It serves no
> documentary purposes and decreases the readability of the remaining code.
> Furthermore the comment style causes checkpatch warnings. If this code
> should ever be needed again, git keeps track of it.

This is bad idea.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've tried to find deleted
code in git. How would you go about finding all deleted sub-vendor
ids in the 16.5M-line Linux source tree, say since 2.6.32?

Regards,
Peter Hurley

> Signed-off-by: Anton Würfel <anton.wuerfel@fau.de>
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Raffeck <phillip.raffeck@fau.de>
> CC: linux-kernel@i4.cs.fau.de
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
> index 3bc0303..9136f0f 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
> @@ -4928,16 +4928,9 @@ static struct pci_device_id serial_pci_tbl[] = {
>  	{	PCI_VENDOR_ID_KORENIX, PCI_DEVICE_ID_KORENIX_JETCARDF0,
>  		0x1208, 0x0004, 0, 0,
>  		pbn_b0_4_921600 },
> -/*	{	PCI_VENDOR_ID_KORENIX, PCI_DEVICE_ID_KORENIX_JETCARDF0,
> -		0x1402, 0x0002, 0, 0,
> -		pbn_b0_2_921600 }, */
> -/*	{	PCI_VENDOR_ID_KORENIX, PCI_DEVICE_ID_KORENIX_JETCARDF0,
> -		0x1404, 0x0004, 0, 0,
> -		pbn_b0_4_921600 }, */
>  	{	PCI_VENDOR_ID_KORENIX, PCI_DEVICE_ID_KORENIX_JETCARDF1,
>  		0x1208, 0x0004, 0, 0,
>  		pbn_b0_4_921600 },
> -
>  	{	PCI_VENDOR_ID_KORENIX, PCI_DEVICE_ID_KORENIX_JETCARDF2,
>  		0x1204, 0x0004, 0, 0,
>  		pbn_b0_4_921600 },
> 

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