linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch: powerpc: platforms: ps3: repository.c: Remove unused function

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Message-ID: <1419294380.30550.1.camel@ellerman.id.au>
Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:26:20 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
Cc:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>,
	Andre Heider <a.heider@...il.com>,
	Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@...ebsd.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: powerpc: platforms: ps3: repository.c:  Remove
 unused function

On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 09:26 -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 16:00 +0100, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> > Remove the function ps3_repository_write_highmem_info() that is not used anywhere.
> 
> NAK
> 
> ps3_repository_write_highmem_info() is needed by otheros++.  What we
> need is a kernel patch to add the highmem info to the repository once it
> is known.

OK so where's that patch?

> These ps3_repository_write_highmem routines are also the only
> documentation the freeBSD port has as to how the highmem info is (should
> be) saved in the repository.

We don't carry dead code as documentation for BSD.

cheers


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