linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] staging: media: Remove unused function atomisp_set_stop

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Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:14:59 +0530
From:   SIMRAN SINGHAL <singhalsimran0@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     mchehab@...nel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] staging: media: Remove unused function atomisp_set_stop_timeout()

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 07:05:05PM +0530, simran singhal wrote:
>> The function atomisp_set_stop_timeout on being called, simply returns
>> back. The function hasn't been mentioned in the TODO and doesn't have
>> FIXME code around. Hence, atomisp_set_stop_timeout and its calls have been
>> removed.
>>
>> This was done using Coccinelle.
>>
>> @@
>> identifier f;
>> @@
>>
>> void f(...) {
>>
>> -return;
>>
>> }
>>
>> Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  v1:
>>    -Change Subject to include name of function
>>    -change commit message to include the coccinelle script
>
> You should also cc: the developers doing all of the current work on this
> driver, Alan Cox, to get their comment if this really is something that
> can be removed or not.
>
> thanks,
>
Greg I have cc'd all the developers which script get_maintainer.pl showed:

$ git show HEAD | perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl --separator ,
--nokeywords --nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-media@...r.kernel.org,devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org

> greg k-h