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

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Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:06:45 +0100
From:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
	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

Hi

Ok, do a patch to remove it now.

Kind regards
Rickard Strandqvist


2014-12-16 1:04 GMT+01:00 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>:
> 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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