linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] e1000: remove unused variables

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Message-ID: <20141127130725.GA12406@sudip-PC>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:37:25 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@...fifty.com>
Cc:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	Matthew Vick <matthew.vick@...el.com>,
	John Ronciak <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>,
	Linux NICS <linux.nics@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: remove unused variables

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 09:59:28PM -0800, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> I'm pretty sure those double reads are there for a reason, so most of
> this I'm going to have to check on Monday. We have a long holiday
> weekend here in the US.

if the double reads are there for some reason, can you please let me know what that reason might be..

> 
> I'm not sure why you're bothering with an old driver like this, but if
> you haven't actually tried this on all the hardware it pertains to, I'm
> going want to NAK this.

no it has not been tested on hardware.  :(

i am still in the learning process, NAK is also part of learning.

infact there is another part of the code, which, theoretically, will never get executed. but i didnot dare to send that removal patch without testing on the hardware.

thanks
sudip

> 
> I should do this from my todd.fujinaka@...el.com account but it's 10PM
> on the first day of a long holiday weekend.
> 
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> 
> >these variables were only being assigned some values, but were never
> >used.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
> >---
> >drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_hw.c   | 142 ++++++++++++--------------
<snip>
> >			case SPEED_100:
> >-				txb2b = false;
> >				/* maybe add some timeout factor ? */
> >				break;
> >			}
> >
> 
> -- 
> Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@...fifty.com
> BSEE + BSChem + BAEnglish + MSCS + $2.50 = coffee
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