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Message-ID: <20140225005154.GA22937@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:51:54 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>
Cc:	Todza Louina <lidza.louina@...il.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	ldv-project@...uxtesting.org,
	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: dgap: remove unneeded status variables

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:21:51AM +0400, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> dgap_driver_start and dgap_Major_Control_Registered are used
> to keep status of initialization of the driver as a whole and its "Major Control".
> But the code that checks them is executed once on module init/unload.
> That makes no sense in these variables as far as their values are predictable
> at any time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_driver.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)

This file is no longer in my tree, as the driver has been merged to one
file.  Can you please redo it against my latest staging-next branch of
my staging.git tree and resend the series so that I can apply them?

thanks,

greg k-h
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