linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch: remove unused macro/function thread_saved

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxUjTQmhovCVHQTPw+v8+P+D8X+LoBohG5sY6cYhtknaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:14:42 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: remove unused macro/function thread_saved_pc()

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch> wrote:
> The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed
> in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in
> sched_show_task()"). Remove the implementations as well.
>
> Some architectures use thread_saved_pc() in their arch-specific code.
> Leave their thread_saved_pc() intact.

Applied.

I do like applying patches that just remove lines of code. Sadly, it's
not very common.

                Linus