Re: Following up

Peilin Ye
2020-10-29T01:53:14Z

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:36:54PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:50 PM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...you mentioned code search, where & what should we look at, in order
> > to confirm it's safe to remove them?
>
> Way back there was google's code search, which was awesome. Now I just
> put the structure name/ioctl #define/number into
> google/bing/duckduckgo and see if anything turns up. Plus check how
> it's used in fb tools (although I just recently learned that fb-test
> pretty much disappeared from the internet, very hard to find the
> original).
>
> If you're unsure, we can merge a patch, then wait about 1 year for any
> users to show up with problems. If that's not the case, assume they're
> all gone, or it was never used and just implemented because it was
> copied from somewhere else, or "just in case". There's lots of dead
> uapi around.

I see, it will be my next thing to do. Hopefully this will remove a lot
of console_font occurrences.

Peilin