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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] /net/ax25/: some cleanups
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:27:08 +0000
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On Maw, 2004-12-28 at 02:51, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:13:39 +0100
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> 
> > The patch below contains the following cleanups:
> > - make two needlessly global functions static
> > - net/ax25/ax25_addr.c: remove the unused global function ax25digicmp

Dave this function is only unused because a patch in 2.6.10 broke AX.25
protocol support by removing the device and path checks. AX.25 is a link
layer protocol it is supposed to check the devices and arguably the
path.