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Date:	Sat, 3 Jan 2015 14:19:35 +0100
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
Cc:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@...imi.it>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	b43-dev <b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: b43legacy: radio.c: Remove unused function

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Rickard Strandqvist
<rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> wrote:
> 2015-01-02 22:34 GMT+01:00 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>:
>>
>> On 2 January 2015 at 18:46, Rickard Strandqvist
>> <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> wrote:
>> > 2015-01-02 13:14 GMT+01:00 Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com> wrote:
>> >> > On 2 January 2015 at 13:05, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com> wrote:
>> >> >> On 1 January 2015 at 16:46, Rickard Strandqvist
>> >> >> <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> wrote:
>> >> >>> Remove the function b43legacy_radio_set_tx_iq() that is not used
>> >> >>> anywhere.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> This was partially found by using a static code analysis program
>> >> >>> called cppcheck.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> It seems to be for A-PHY based hardware (with 0x2060 radio id) which
>> >> >> is not handled by b43legacy. Should be safe to drop this code (we
>> >> >> won't likely need it).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Ack
>> >> >
>> >> > For future, we prefix patches with just a driver name. So this could
>> >> > be simply called
>> >> > b43legacy: radio.c: Remove unused function
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Alternatively...
>> >>
>> >> "b43legacy: Remove unused function in radio.c"
>> >>
>> >> BTW, as Arnd Bergmann pointed out [1] how did you test with cppcheck
>> >> to get such stuff?
>> >>
>> >> - Sedat -
>> >>
>> >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/2/51
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Rafal and Sedat
>> >
>> > Rafal do you mean I should remove the entire b43legacy part?
>>
>> 1) I gave you Ack for the changes
>> 2) You could drop "net: wireless: " or better use something Sedat proposed
>>
>> --
>> Rafał
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> Nice, yes I miss the Ack :)
>
> I just got one more complaining about my subject-line in "net: wireless: "
> I use some sed call for this, so it's easy to fix. I will now remove that
> part hereinafter.
> I check in Documentation/ but did not find any clear info for this.
>

The easiest way to make (sub)maintainers happy is to check the git-log...

$ git log --oneline /path/to/file

...and look how other contributors labeled their patches.

[1] is the 1st address to look at on how to submit patches to Linux-kernel.
To promote the good work of Greg, see [2,3] for a video and tutorial
on that topic, too.

- Sedat -

[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXix80GCvpo
[3] https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-tutorial
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