linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3 v4] Staging: rtl8192u: Remove two useless lines at ieee80211_wep

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Message-ID: <1433197152.3615.4.camel@pedrito-laptop>
Date:	Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:19:12 +0200
From:	pmarzo <marzo.pedro@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	navyasri.tech@...il.com, dilekuzulmez@...il.com, joe@...ches.com,
	haticeerturk27@...il.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 v4] Staging: rtl8192u: Remove two useless lines at
 ieee80211_wep_null

On Sun, 2015-05-31 at 10:39 +0900, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:25:18AM +0200, Pedro Marzo Perez wrote:
> > Remove two lines at ieee80211_wep_null which checkpatch.pl reported as errors.
> > The first one because it has a C99 comment style and the second one because it is a void
> > return which is useless.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pedro Marzo Perez <marzo.pedro@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
> > index bd789d1..94622cc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
> > @@ -279,6 +279,4 @@ void __exit ieee80211_crypto_wep_exit(void)
> >  
> >  void ieee80211_wep_null(void)
> >  {
> > -//	printk("============>%s()\n", __func__);
> > -	return;
> >  }
> 
> Please just delete the function.

It is not so easy, the function is exported at file
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h and used at
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c line 179 with
several other "null" functions, it seems a dirty trick to force module
loading:
/* These function were added to load crypte module autoly */
    ieee80211_tkip_null();
    ieee80211_wep_null();
    ieee80211_ccmp_null();

I guess all this stuff should be rewritten to force the autoload
properly but I don't have the knowledge to fix all this.
Sorry Greg :-(


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