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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] usbnet.c: remove an unused function
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:37:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410291737.04415.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029232742.GE6677@stusta.de>

On Friday 29 October 2004 16:27, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:17:30PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:

> > p.s. Last I looked, GCC ignored unused inlines; no code
> >      generated, no warnings.  Did that change?
> >...
> 
> It didn't change.
> 
> But there are three different possible reactions on my patches:
> 1. ACK, kill this dead code
> 2. ups, I really wanted to use this function
> 3. please keep, code using this function will/might follow in the future
> 
> Case 1 is the most common case (and this simply removes some dead code).
> 
> I had until now two times case 2 (which means the code is now better).
> 
> You are the first person for case 3.

And presumably there will also be at least a few case 4:

  4. no response, treated as an ACK.

:)


      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-30  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-28 23:24 [2.6 patch] usbnet.c: remove an unused function Adrian Bunk
2004-10-29  0:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-29 23:17   ` David Brownell
2004-10-29 23:27     ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-30  0:37       ` David Brownell [this message]

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