linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tty: serial: samsung

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Message-ID: <d6fdf664bd18eee581a2644e376124e830633045.camel@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:22:03 +0100
From:   André Draszik <andre.draszik@...aro.org>
To:     Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org,
        alim.akhtar@...sung.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        jirislaby@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tty: serial: samsung_tty: remove dead code

Hi Andi,

On Tue, 2023-10-24 at 23:55 +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
> Hi Andre,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 11:09:01AM +0100, André Draszik wrote:
> > When support for various old platforms was removed in commit
> > 1ea35b355722 ("ARM: s3c: remove s3c24xx specific hacks"),
> > s3c24xx_serial_ops also became unused here because nothing sets
> > port
> > type TYPE_S3C24XX anymore.
> > 
> > Remove s3c24xx_serial_ops and all the code that's unreachable now.
> > 
> > Fixes: 1ea35b355722 ("ARM: s3c: remove s3c24xx specific hacks")
> 
> is this really a fix? Or is it a cleanup?

I guess from my position it's fixing the issue of dead code, introduced
in the commit referenced. Which is of course also a cleanup :-)

Not sure...

Cheers,
Andre