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Message-ID: <YZ+8o591fl5uQ5dC@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:41:07 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Zameer Manji <zmanji@...il.com>
Cc:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>,
        "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>,
        Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: remove unused hal fields

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 02:20:20PM +0000, Zameer Manji wrote:
> Several HAL related fields are never used or are useless. This removes
> those fields and any code that is now safe to remove from the field
> deletion.
> 
> The fields that are referenced but are useless are:
> * interfaceIndex: only written to, never read.
> * CurrentCckTxPwrIdx: only written to, never read.
> * CurrentOfdm24GTxPwrIdx: only written to, never read.
> * CurrentBW2024GTxPwrIdx: only written to, never read.
> * CurrentBW4024GTxPwrIdx: only written to, never read.
> * bRDGEnable: never initialized, always false.

Please split this up into one-patch-per-thing, this is very hard to read
and verify that this is all correct when it is lumped together.

Make it a patch series and resend please.

thanks,

greg k-h

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