linux-kernel - Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [PATCH] arch: arm: mach-msm: smd.c: Remove some unused functions

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Date:	Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:46:07 +0000
From:	dwalker@...o99.com
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@...eaurora.org>,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [PATCH] arch: arm: mach-msm: smd.c: Remove
 some unused functions

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:35:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2014 22:01:28 dwalker@...o99.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:20:43AM +0100, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > My script looks for the same function name, so if they then would be
> > > named exactly the same, they would come up.
> > > 
> > > But I can not even find drivers/staging/dream/   or is this really new code?
> > 
> > Maybe it was deleted already ..
> 
> It's been gone for over four years, after nobody worked on cleaning it up
> for a while before that:
> 
> commit 3414df8ca38b203c8a5ad8efc32d4a3836a0596d
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> Date:   Fri Oct 29 12:42:18 2010 -0700
> 
>     Staging: dream: remove dream driver and arch from tree
>     
>     This code is stalled, with no one working on it anymore, and the main
>     msm code is now going through the proper channels to get merged
>     correctly.
>     
>     So remove it as it contains a number of kernel information leaks and it
>     is doubtful if it even still builds anymore.
>     
>     Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
>     Acked-by: Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@...eaurora.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>


Yeah, somehow still ended up in my 3.18 tree. Must have been a "git reset".

Daniel

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