linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: Remove rtw_mfree_all

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Message-ID: <4588980.OG3HjkdD0c@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:47:06 +0200
From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: Remove rtw_mfree_all_stainfo()

On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 8:10:37 PM CEST Larry Finger wrote:
> On 8/4/21 10:09 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> 
> []
>
> After looking at the original code for several other drivers, routine
> rtw_mfree_stainfo() just ends up calling a couple of routines that free a
> spinlock. That operation for Windows and FreeBSD is not trivial, but for 
Linux,
> the routine does nothing. Thus, despite its name, rtw_mfree_stainfo() does 
not
> free anything, and it can be deleted.
> 
> The original patch is
> 
> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
> 
> Larry

Larry, 

Thanks for looking at that routine and acking my patch,

Fabio