linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cdx: remove unused struct 'cdx_mcdi_copy

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Message-ID: <35ff23a2-d8bf-4f8b-a33f-b57ee36a81f8@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:57:46 +0530
From: "Gupta, Nipun" <nipun.gupta@....com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>, nikhil.agarwal@....com,
 abhijit.gangurde@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cdx: remove unused struct 'cdx_mcdi_copy_buffer'

On 7/22/2024 10:16 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 09:59:27AM +0530, Gupta, Nipun wrote:
>> On 7/22/2024 4:17 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>>> * Gupta, Nipun (nipun.gupta@....com) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/31/2024 5:04 AM, linux@...blig.org wrote:
>>>>> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> 'cdx_mcdi_copy_buffer' has been unused since the original
>>>>> commit eb96b740192b ("cdx: add MCDI protocol interface for firmware
>>>>> interaction").
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking at lkml,  it was used in the V1 posting but was removed
>>>>> somewhere before V6.
>>>>>
>>>>> Remove it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@...blig.org>
>>>> Acked-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@....com>
>>>
>>> Hi Nipun,
>>>     Do you know who would pick this one up? I don't think it's made it's
>>> way into -next yet.
>>
>> Added Greg k-h for this.
> 
> For what?  Sorry, I have no context here...

This patch is from David to remove an unused structure in CDX. He is 
asking me that who will pick this up to be added in linux code. So I 
just added you explicitly, as you will be adding it in the your branch 
which will go in linux-next :)