Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v1] staging: media: Remove unused function atomisp_set_stop_timeout()

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 07:05:05PM +0530, simran singhal wrote:
> >> The function atomisp_set_stop_timeout on being called, simply returns
> >> back. The function hasn't been mentioned in the TODO and doesn't have
> >> FIXME code around. Hence, atomisp_set_stop_timeout and its calls have been
> >> removed.
> >>
> >> This was done using Coccinelle.
> >>
> >> @@
> >> identifier f;
> >> @@
> >>
> >> void f(...) {
> >>
> >> -return;
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  v1:
> >>    -Change Subject to include name of function
> >>    -change commit message to include the coccinelle script
> >
> > You should also cc: the developers doing all of the current work on this
> > driver, Alan Cox, to get their comment if this really is something that
> > can be removed or not.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> Greg I have cc'd all the developers which script get_maintainer.pl showed:
>
> $ git show HEAD | perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl --separator ,
> --nokeywords --nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats

Sometimes people do a lot of work on something without being the
maintainer.  You can see who has done this using git log.  Dropping some
of the "no" arguments might give you the same information, but in practice
the results tend to be an overapproximation...

julia

>
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
> linux-media@vger.kernel.org,devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>
> > greg k-h
>
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