Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c: possible cleanups

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Apr 12 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 08:12:34AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 10 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
> > > - make needlessly global code static
> > > - remove the following unused global functions:
> > >   - blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn
> > 
> > Kill the function completely, it is not used anymore.
> > 
> > >   - __blk_attempt_remerge
> > 
> > Normally I would say leave that since it's part of the API, but lets
> > just kill it. I don't envision any further users of the remerging
> > attempts.
> > 
> > > - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
> > >   - blk_phys_contig_segment
> > >   - blk_hw_contig_segment
> > >   - blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn
> > >   - __blk_attempt_remerge
> > > 
> > > Please review which of these changes make sense.
> > 
> > Looks fine to me, thanks. Can you send a new patch that kills
> > blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn()?
> 
> I have a problem parsing your email.
> 
> Which parts of my patch are OK and which shouldn't be applied?
> Or why do you want a separate blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn patch?

I have no problems with your patch, I would just like a revised patch
that removes blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn completely instead since it is
totally unused. It doesn't make sense to remove the export and make it
static, since it isn't used internally (and never meant to, it's a
helper function for drivers).

-- 
Jens Axboe