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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	trivial@rustcorp.com.au, daniel.ritz@gmx.ch
Subject: Re: [2.5 patch] remove an unused variable from xirc2ps_cs.c
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:12:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030620171205.GL29247@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030620050950.38D362C129@lists.samba.org>

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:36:01PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <20030620001049.GI29247@fs.tum.de> you write:
> > The platch below removes an unused variable from 
> > drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c .
> 
> Please add __attribute_used__ instead, since the author presumably
> wants the string left in.

I'd agree if the author was still active. All the changes to this 
driver in the near past weren't done by Werner Koch (dd9jn). Since 
the version isn't updated when the driver is updated and this string is 
no longer used in 2.5 (it was displayed in 2.4) I consider it quite 
obsolete.

> Cheers,
> Rusty.
> 
> > --- linux-2.5.72-mm2/drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c.old	2003-06-20 02:07:40.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.5.72-mm2/drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c	2003-06-20 02:07:55.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -225,9 +225,7 @@
> >  #else
> >  #define DEBUG(n, args...)
> >  #endif
> > -static char *version =
> > -"xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh)";
> > -	    /* !--- CVS revision */
> > +
> >  #define KDBG_XIRC KERN_DEBUG   "xirc2ps_cs: "
> >  #define KERR_XIRC KERN_ERR     "xirc2ps_cs: "
> >  #define KWRN_XIRC KERN_WARNING "xirc2ps_cs: "
> --
>   Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-06-20 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-20  0:10 [2.5 patch] remove an unused variable from xirc2ps_cs.c Adrian Bunk
2003-06-20  4:36 ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-20 17:12   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]

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