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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rfkill-input: remove unused code
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:11:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238166712.4452.11.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090327143608.GB24288@khazad-dum.debian.net> (sfid-20090327_153635_512916_55398CA9)

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On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:36 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > There's a lot of rfkill-input code that cannot ever be
> > compiled and is useless until somebody needs and tests
> > it -- therefore remove it.
> 
> Just so that you guys know, that code *is* tested :-)

At some point :)

> I'd suggest that the code removal be done leaving a comment in place, like this:
> 
> /* Currently, code to implement EV_SW SW_WLAN/WWAN/BLUETOOTH/etc is not
>  * in place since it was unused and was therefore removed.  Please look
>  * at past history to check how it was supposed to be done, if you need
>  * to implement handling for EV_SW.
>  */
> 
> Because that codepath is _not_ the most obvious thing in the world to
> reimplement without hitting a pitfall, so people better look how it was done
> once in time...

Works for me. Do we expect it to be needed though?

johannes

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-27 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-27 13:16 [PATCH] rfkill-input: remove unused code Johannes Berg
2009-03-27 14:36 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 14:59   ` Michael Buesch
2009-03-27 15:13     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 15:11   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-03-28  0:55     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 21:10   ` Johannes Berg

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