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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: remove unused code and data in nexgen.c
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:22:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480AC505.1030301@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208660074-7324-3-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>

Dmitri Vorobiev wrote:
> Nobody calls the function nexgen_init_cpu(), therefore it
> can be removed. The variable nexgen_cpu_dev is used only by
> this function, so this patch removes useless data as well.
> 
> This patch was build-tested using defconfigs for i386 and x86_64.
> It also survived a few randconfig instances for i386. Runtime
> tests were performed by booting 32-bit and 64-bit x86 boxen up to
> the shell prompt.

NAK.  This is broken.

The reason nexgen_cpu_dev is unreferenced is because the file is missing 
a cpu_vendor_dev_register(), which should be added.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-20  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-20  2:54 [PATCH 0/4] x86: random clean-ups Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20  2:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: remove unused function amd_init_cpu() Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20  2:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86: remove unused code and data in nexgen.c Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20  4:22   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-20 10:33     ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] x86: remove unused function, register the cpu vendor " Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 18:51     ` [PATCH 2/4] x86: remove unused code and data " Andi Kleen
2008-04-20 19:24       ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 19:34         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-20 19:45           ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 19:47             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-20 20:03           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-20 20:26             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-23 18:19           ` Alan Cox
2008-04-23 19:02             ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20  2:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: the standard_io_resources[] array can become static Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20  2:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: conditionally compile sysfs stuff in intel_cacheinfo.c Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-21 12:25 ` [PATCH 0/4] x86: random clean-ups Ingo Molnar
     [not found]   ` <90edad820804210541h26c8e66dh70895f32e4b4038d@mail.gmail.com>
2008-04-22 14:02     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-22 19:18       ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-22 19:22         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-22 19:37           ` Dmitri Vorobiev

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