linux-kernel - staging: r8188eu: Can odm_DynamicTxPowerNIC() be removed?

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Message-ID: <7f1c135a-d85d-d271-f315-d665a5fe1472@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 18 Sep 2021 15:31:48 +0200
From:   Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>
To:     Larry.Finger@...inger.net, Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: staging: r8188eu: Can odm_DynamicTxPowerNIC() be removed?

Hi Larry, Phillip and all.

While removing code that checks for the chip type I stumbled upon this:

void odm_DynamicTxPowerNIC(struct odm_dm_struct *pDM_Odm)
{
	if (!(pDM_Odm->SupportAbility & ODM_BB_DYNAMIC_TXPWR))
		return;

	if (pDM_Odm->SupportICType == ODM_RTL8188E) {
		/*  ??? */
		/*  This part need to be redefined. */
	}
}

(pDM_Odm->SupportICType == ODM_RTL8188E) is always true in this driver.
Currently the function does nothing and the driver seems to work fine.
Because of the comment I'm not sure if the whole function can just be
removed?

Regards,
Michael