From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>,
Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: os_dep: usb_intf.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:04:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <548F7703.1060600@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFo99gZOr=1z8J_gNNRLXnKNBEiPCE_G3=ryaN5hAHvewHf0_w@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/15/2014 05:01 PM, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Hi
>
> No the rtw_hw_resume23a() is not used anywhere.
> I also do a check of all functions that are not used, but not in the
> drivers/staging, I suspected that these might be under development and
> used in the future.
>
> What do you want to do, who decides?
The original developers of this code do not include any of the Linux
maintainers. If you see an unused routine, submit a patch to delete it. If a
maintainer thinks it should be kept, your patch will be NACKed, but that is pnot
likely.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-16 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-14 22:39 [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: os_dep: usb_intf.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference Rickard Strandqvist
2014-12-15 10:31 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-15 15:48 ` Jes Sorensen
2014-12-15 23:01 ` Rickard Strandqvist
2014-12-16 0:04 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2014-12-17 20:06 ` Rickard Strandqvist
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