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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@icloud.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] list: Remove duplicated and unused macro list_for_each_reverse
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:49:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024091752-passivism-donut-ccca@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240917-fix_list-v1-1-8fb8beb41e5d@quicinc.com>

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 03:28:18PM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
> From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
> 
> Remove macro list_for_each_reverse due to below reasons:
> 
> - it is same as list_for_each_prev.
> - it is not used by current kernel tree.
> 
> Fixes: 8bf0cdfac7f8 ("<linux/list.h>: Introduce the list_for_each_reverse() method")

Why is this a "Fix:"?

> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Why is this for stable?  What does this fix?  Just removing code that no
one uses doesn't need to be backported, it's just dead, delete it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-17  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-17  7:28 [PATCH] list: Remove duplicated and unused macro list_for_each_reverse Zijun Hu
2024-09-17  7:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2024-09-17 10:36   ` Zijun Hu

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