linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] spi: Remove unused definitions

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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:35:19 -0400
From:	Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Nick Krause <xerofoiffy@...il.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	"open list:SPI SUBSYSTEM" <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] spi: Remove unused definitions

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:27 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:53:17 -0400, Nick Krause said:
>> Remove unused definition which cause the following warnings
>>
>> drivers/spi/spi-omap-100k.c:73:0: warning: "WRITE" redefined [enabled by default]
>> include/linux/fs.h:193:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>> drivers/spi/spi-omap-100k.c:74:0: warning: "READ" redefined [enabled by default]
>> include/linux/fs.h:192:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>
>> -#define WRITE 0
>> -#define READ  1
>
> NAK.  Full stop.  These are potentially used in an inner macro someplace, and by
> removing these, the conflicting values from fs.h will be used instead.
>
> #define READ                    0
> #define WRITE                   RW_MASK
>
> So if there *is* a use in an inner macro, you just screwed the pooch
> and introduced a bug in this "clean up" - somebody will be expecting to see
> a 0 for a READ, and will receive a 1 instead.  This can't end well.

I was actually about to send a similar response, but then I noticed I
couldn't actually find any uses of READ/WRITE in the file... But I
could easily have missed them.

>
> Nick - how *exactly* did you identify that these are in fact not used?
> Given your history of submitting poorly researched patches, you're going to
> have to justify the "unused" better than the handwaving you've done here.
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