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

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:29:25 +0300
From:	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Alexandru Juncu <alexj@...edu.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>, pebolle@...cali.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lustre:libcfs: remove redundant code.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 06:29:34PM +0300, Alexandru Juncu wrote:
>> On 19 July 2013 18:21, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Alexandru Juncu <alexj@...edu.org> wrote:
>> >> I was thinking the same thing, but I hesitated because I didn't know
>> >> how used it was and I didn't want to break something.
>> >
>> > "git grep cfs_strdup" suggests that nobody uses it so you could just
>> > remove it completely...
>>
>> Did a grep on the tree and yes, it's not used. But It's in a staging
>> directory so maybe the rest of the code has not been pushed in yet.
>
> Doesn't matter, if there are no users, please just remove it.

Hi Greg,

There is already a similar patch for this https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/17/742,
already reviewed by Andreas Dilger.

thanks,
Daniel.
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