linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: Remove unused platform_notify, platform_notify

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:43:21 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Remove unused platform_notify,
 platform_notify_remove

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 05:14:09PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> 
> The "platform_notify" and "platform_notify_remove" hooks have been unused
> since 00ba9357d189 ("ARM: ixp4xx: Drop custom DMA coherency and bouncing").
> 
> Remove "platform_notify" and "platform_notify_remove".  No functional
> change intended.

Less this invasive callbacks, better to maintain, thank you for the contribution!

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>

> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Btw, can we start moving Cc list out of the commit messages?

> ---

You can simply put Cc here, and it will have the same effect (and being
archived on lore.kernel.org) while making commit messages less polluted.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko