linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: os_dep: usb_intf.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <548F7703.1060600@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:04:19 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>
CC:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: os_dep: usb_intf.c: Fix for possible
 null pointer dereference

On 12/15/2014 05:01 PM, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Hi
>
> No the rtw_hw_resume23a() is not used anywhere.
> I also do a check of all functions that are not used, but not in the
> drivers/staging, I suspected that these might be under development and
> used in the future.
>
> What do you want to do, who decides?

The original developers of this code do not include any of the Linux 
maintainers. If you see an unused routine, submit a patch to delete it. If a 
maintainer thinks it should be kept, your patch will be NACKed, but that is pnot 
likely.

Larry


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