linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: trans_rdma: remove unused function

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:45:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pebolle@...cali.nl
Cc:	andi@...zian.org, ericvh@...il.com, rminnich@...dia.gov,
	lucho@...kov.net, v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: trans_rdma: remove unused function

From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 01:09:47 +0200

> On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 15:46 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>
>> > This patch gets rid of the following warning:
>> > 
>> > net/9p/trans_rdma.c:594:12: warning: ‘rdma_cancelled’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>> >  static int rdma_cancelled(struct p9_client *client, struct p9_req_t *req)
>> > 
>> > The rdma_cancelled function is not called anywhere in the kernel
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>
>> 
>> Applied to net-next, thanks.
> 
> After this patch one might as well revert the rest of commit
> 80b45261a0b2 ("9P: Add cancelled() to the transport functions.") too. It
> seems the entire cancelled callback stuff is now pointless.
> 
> As I already asked in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/87 : did that
> commit "forget to actually hook up rdma_cancelled() into
> p9_rdma_trans()?". It does look so to me.

If nobody responds to this in the next day or so, feel free to send me
a patch which rips it all out.

No response means they don't care, and neither, therefore, should we.

Thanks.