linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lustre:libcfs: remove redundant code.

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:22:53 +0300
From:	Alexandru Juncu <alexj@...edu.org>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	"andreas.dilger" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	"tao.peng" <tao.peng@....com>,
	driverdev <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lustre:libcfs: remove redundant code.

On 19 July 2013 19:07, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 08:46 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> Doesn't matter, if there are no users, please just remove it.
>
> Is that, basically, your approach to staging cleanups?
>
> I ask because I noticed that "drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/gss/"
> is only built if CONFIG_PTLRPC_GSS is set. But the corresponding Kconfig
> symbol is nowhere to be found.
>
> Or do you prefer that I poke the people involved in (this case in)
> Lustre before suggesting a drastic cleanup like that?



Thanks for the comments!

The comment for that function is "Duplicate a string in a
platform-independent way" so it might be because it's called by code
that also run on non-Linux systems.
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