From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755575AbbCMO3y (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:29:54 -0400 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:10511 "EHLO mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755199AbbCMO3t (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:29:49 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,395,1422918000"; d="scan'208";a="125797440" Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:29:43 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@hadrien To: Ashwin Chaugule cc: Jassi Brar , daniel@iogearbox.net, lkml Subject: Re: question about drivers/mailbox/pcc.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Ashwin Chaugule wrote: > On 13 March 2015 at 05:12, Julia Lawall wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The patch 86c22f8c9a3b from Wed Nov 12 19:59:38 2014 in linux-next > > introduces a file that contains two exported functions: > > pcc_mbox_request_channel and pcc_mbox_free_channel. As far as I can see, > > these functions are not used by any modules in the kernel source tree. > > Is there some code coming that will use them, or should they be removed? > > There is code that depends on these functions being reviewed. CPPC is > one client that is publicly being reviewed[1]. I know there are others > (RASF), but I do not know their upstreaming status. OK, thanks for the clarification. julia > > Thanks, > Ashwin. > > [1] - https://www.marc.info/?t=142239274200005&r=1&w=1 >