linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Fixup unused variables and warnings

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Message-ID: <YMmvLfJmoso0xWdJ@equinox>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:58:37 +0100
From:   Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Larry.Finger@...inger.net, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Fixup unused variables and warnings

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 09:24:25AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:36:00PM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> > This series fixes an empty goto label by removing it and converting its
> > associated goto to a return. It also changes a decrement operator to
> > prefix to make it clearer, and provide expected behaviour. Finally, it
> > removes a lot of unused variables warned about by the kernel test robot,
> > which are a result of my previous DBG_88E removal series, and removes an
> > entire function as well which is surplus to requirements.
> > 
> > Phillip Potter (7):
> >   staging: rtl8188eu: remove empty label from
> >     mlmeext_joinbss_event_callback
> >   staging: rtl8188eu: use prefix decrement operator on trycnt variable
> >   staging: rtl8188eu: remove unused variables from core/rtw_efuse.c
> >   staging: rtl8188eu: remove unused variables from core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> >   staging: rtl8188eu: remove unused variable from os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> >   staging: rtl8188eu: remove unused variables from hal/rtl8188e_cmd.c
> >   staging: rtl8188eu: remove _dbg_dump_tx_info function
> 
> In the future, can you use "staging: rtl8188eu:" on the prefix of your
> 0/X email so these can be caught easier by those of us who filter on
> stuff like this?
> 
> And thanks for fixing these so quickly, I'll go apply them now.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Dear Greg,

Yes, absolutely, my apologies. I don't know why I wasn't doing this
already, seems obvious in hindsight - I put it down to my brain
malfunctioning :-) Many thanks for taking the patches.

Regards,
Phil