From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-wr1-f44.google.com (mail-wr1-f44.google.com [209.85.221.44]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D84E63FC1 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2021 22:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wr1-f44.google.com with SMTP id v10so5344398wrd.4 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:39:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=philpotter-co-uk.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=pOGARM/3r7XhtT2OObL4KaH9wnbE2NcOM9J9iRB5eis=; b=FwYCZty4w/TCOCpGUI8c/SCwnPqjh3Y4iLQWlMI1m6uGOMdMdpWTPErBDQ9cgMRVfj YwXFnJNbGVMBSCFp1o7WD3hMRmNXloGem1fo1C1s6AjtE2JoSHm0J06rEczF7C9QymXh LPL+dSDkccUeqcqynbdvudFcUDlTIv/X8LGiO5cmefbxheHmqQlB8fheJahONBwkUlMV M1wM90yhdFKglSznIktvg/HWpKvnXolSWd1orJoHLEsRZ/bleFY3kynjhYpWwkL8XzXD ck2CoJp4Zg7HMyViM42n7MQuGXZg2XraEf3wVkifiBcrZSRloQ1nuUmteHYNMZt7DAm7 WXuw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=pOGARM/3r7XhtT2OObL4KaH9wnbE2NcOM9J9iRB5eis=; b=HMICg3tBOkT7jk+69RI7v6Z5EfW1v+SZCkdmSdEZrrpoVZi5T4Ax6PixR5lwHuf/wU voXEMegGtjIxeMXaZ3o1WOoEADVJAARFtinWXgOqwsG+AfzQZphZ0W3JtJXVRswOytLp O8kgxK+B1A+/DMAkHGbRDLOT9wNxrLZ4LHidq76NXtgB9b/KMZY3RbGQQNgGk8CmxL9G toQ+1183dbifdsb8tf0jTURceg/ePt21oKclQ43BsUVjGkgTd+PDfF1c8F0OQc+sSkaS m6iMe5qX2IVfoIzmKaDOnlrZk2wjTMlSTC21UCqVn1OecgOY5j0Po8eEp8I2HfE/lKCi hHzQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530StElHOYzeHqt7NswmO0t1xvLoErVErxowUjr1LCKdIYRdSzXT WNy1RHUqW3QSDn2BgoKwxpZqYA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxHOgQgkjjLjAXVnGzV819Eo+ydxq+5mNHrjVJ6JUH4M8hU0JPSh205P8Vq/YXFtzm31fWOYA== X-Received: by 2002:adf:b78d:: with SMTP id s13mr541268wre.344.1630622392132; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from equinox (2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.a.1.e.e.d.f.d.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa. [2001:8b0:dfde:e1a0::2]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l187sm2670605wml.39.2021.09.02.15.39.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:39:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 23:39:49 +0100 From: Phillip Potter To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arnd Bergmann , Larry Finger , Andrew Morton , Stephen Rothwell , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Staging / IIO driver changes for 5.15-rc1 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 02:28:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:00 PM Phillip Potter wrote: > > > > I left this code in when I wrote ae7471cae00a ("staging: r8188eu: remove > > rtw_ioctl function") with the intention of modifying and reconnecting, > > once the changes to struct net_device_ops made their way into the > > staging tree. > > Oh, ok. That explains why the dead code existed. > > Yeah, I guess y9ou can resurrect it now with the new siocdevprivate model. > > I actually ended up doing that first as part of the merge, until I > noticed that the code wasn't connected in the staging tree at all and > then decided to undo my merge and just remove the dead code. > > Linus Dear Linus, Many thanks, I'll get that done. Have a great Friday/weekend. Regards, Phil