linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/19] serial: samsung: Remove support for legacy clock code

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Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:39:27 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/19] serial: samsung: Remove support for legacy clock
 code

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 16:43 +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On 16.07.2014 16:35, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 16:26 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 14:43 +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> >>> That's right. Apparently I missed them. I guess that's not critical,
> >>> though, and could be done in separate patch, right?
> >>
> >> This is not critical at all, so that's fine with me. 
> > 
> > Actually, that's only correct if the solution here is to just remove the
> > (currently) dead code hidden behind CONFIG_SAMSUNG_CLOCK. But if the
> > solution requires something less trivial, that might be quite wrong.
> > 
> > So please disregard my comment!
> 
> The code between those ifdefs is no longer used, because all Samsung
> platforms use the Common Clock Framework after this series. So I believe
> we can safely remove this dead code.

The three checks for CONFIG_SAMSUNG_CLOCK can still be seen in v3.17-rc3
and next-20140903. Should I perhaps submit the trivial patch to remove
them (and the code they hide) or did things turn out to be more
complicated?


Paul Bolle

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