linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: media: atomisp2: remove unused headers

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Message-ID: <20180129133014.GB32503@Red>
Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:30:14 +0100
From:   LABBE Corentin <clabbe@...libre.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: media: atomisp2: remove unused headers

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 03:22:33PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Corentin Labbe <clabbe@...libre.com> wrote:
> > All thoses headers are not used by any source files.
> > Lets just remove them.
> 
> How did you test this?
> 
> P.S. I like the patch, but since driver in a state of coma vigil, I'm
> afraid you may do something which shouldn't be done for working
> driver.
> 

For testing I have:
- successfully compiling the driver
- for each file, grepping its name in tree to be sure that no one uses it.