linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Staging / IIO driver changes for 5.15-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whzVVzA5Ng0BUZOvhxEjQiopjwWM5KQDhh6-dWKbD_=vA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Sep 2021 14:28:02 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Staging / IIO driver changes for 5.15-rc1

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:00 PM Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I left this code in when I wrote ae7471cae00a ("staging: r8188eu: remove
> rtw_ioctl function") with the intention of modifying and reconnecting,
> once the changes to struct net_device_ops made their way into the
> staging tree.

Oh, ok. That explains why the dead code existed.

Yeah, I guess y9ou can resurrect it now with the new siocdevprivate model.

I actually ended up doing that first as part of the merge, until I
noticed that the code wasn't connected in the staging tree at all and
then decided to undo my merge and just remove the dead code.

            Linus