linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] #if 0 aoedev

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Message-ID: <20080213220537.GA24319@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:05:37 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@...aid.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] #if 0 aoedev_isbusy()

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:03:35PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Feb 13 2008 23:30, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> >This patch #if 0's the no longer used aoedev_isbusy().
> 
> Why not just remove it? (It can be resurrected from earlier
> revisions should it be needed again.)

I've switched to doing #if 0 instead since this addresses the
"It might be needed in the future." answer I otherwise sometimes
got.

But if a maintainer wants to have such a function deleted instead that's 
fine with me.

cu
Adrian

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