linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: b43legacy: radio.c: Remove unused function

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Message-ID: <CA+icZUWOXMEyobZkudW9BEfkaWFTXQL9XF26g7oJMCzt=4==6g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2015 13:14:47 +0100
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Cc:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@...imi.it>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	b43-dev <b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: b43legacy: radio.c: Remove unused function

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com> wrote:
> On 2 January 2015 at 13:05, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com> wrote:
>> On 1 January 2015 at 16:46, Rickard Strandqvist
>> <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> wrote:
>>> Remove the function b43legacy_radio_set_tx_iq() that is not used anywhere.
>>>
>>> This was partially found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>>
>> It seems to be for A-PHY based hardware (with 0x2060 radio id) which
>> is not handled by b43legacy. Should be safe to drop this code (we
>> won't likely need it).
>>
>> Ack
>
> For future, we prefix patches with just a driver name. So this could
> be simply called
> b43legacy: radio.c: Remove unused function
>

Alternatively...

"b43legacy: Remove unused function in radio.c"

BTW, as Arnd Bergmann pointed out [1] how did you test with cppcheck
to get such stuff?

- Sedat -

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/2/51
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