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

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Message-ID: <2024072255-storm-friday-f18b@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:35:30 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: "Gupta, Nipun" <nipun.gupta@....com>
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 Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 10:57:46AM +0530, Gupta, Nipun wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 :)

Sorry, please wait for -rc1 to come out, it's the middle of the merge
window right now and I can't do anything new until then.

thanks,

greg k-h