linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 5/9] ASoC: max98927: Removed obsolete variables

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Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 21:38:33 +0000
From:   Ryan Lee <RyanS.Lee@...imintegrated.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/9] ASoC: max98927: Removed obsolete variables

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Brown [mailto:broonie@...nel.org]
>Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 4:54 AM
>To: Ryan Lee <RyanS.Lee@...imintegrated.com>
>Cc: lgirdwood@...il.com; perex@...ex.cz; tiwai@...e.com;
>kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com; alsa-devel@...a-project.org; linux-
>kernel@...r.kernel.org; ryan.lee.maxim@...il.com
>Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] ASoC: max98927: Removed obsolete variables
>
>On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 04:30:57PM -0700, Ryan Lee wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Lee <ryans.lee@...imintegrated.com>
>
>Why are these variables obsolete?  If their use was removed in earlier patches in
>the series they should be handled in that patch, if they're just unused say so.  In
>general your changelogs could really benefit from being a bit longer and
>explaining why changes are being made.
>
>>  mode change 100644 => 100755 sound/soc/codecs/max98927.h
>
>This also changes the permissions to be executable which isn't what we want.

Thank you for your comment.
I wanted to remove these variables because it have never been referred in max98927.c from the beginning.