Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] staging: rtl8188eu: remove unused rtw_handle_tkip_mic_err()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:09:14PM +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
> On 07/30/18 11:27, Michael Straube wrote:
> > On 07/30/18 11:02, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 08:54:43PM +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
> > > > The function rtw_handle_tkip_mic_err() is never used, so remove it.
> > > > Discovered by cppcheck.
> > > 
> > > That's a bad tool then, as this is used, and the build breaks when this
> > > patch is applied :(
> > > 
> > > I've dropped it now.
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > 
> > > greg k-h
> > > 
> > 
> > Hm, that's weired, I also checked with:
> > 
> > git grep -n rtw_handle_tkip_mic_err drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/
> > 
> > There were/are no uses and the driver builds and works fine here.
> > I don't see what I may have missed here. :(
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Michael
> 
> The use of rtw_handle_tkip_mic_err() was added back in commit
> 
> 69a1d98c831ec64cbfd381f5dcb6697e1445d239
> Revert "staging:r8188eu: Use lib80211 to support TKIP"
> 
> which was applied with 'Merge 4.18-rc7 into staging-next'.
> 
> That was not applied when I sent the patch yesterday,
> sorry for the trouble.

Ah, that makes more sense, sorry for the noise, I should have caught
that.

greg k-h