linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] list: Remove duplicated and unused macro list_for_each

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Message-ID: <2024091752-passivism-donut-ccca@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:49:26 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@...oud.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] list: Remove duplicated and unused macro
 list_for_each_reverse

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 03:28:18PM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
> From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>
> 
> Remove macro list_for_each_reverse due to below reasons:
> 
> - it is same as list_for_each_prev.
> - it is not used by current kernel tree.
> 
> Fixes: 8bf0cdfac7f8 ("<linux/list.h>: Introduce the list_for_each_reverse() method")

Why is this a "Fix:"?

> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Why is this for stable?  What does this fix?  Just removing code that no
one uses doesn't need to be backported, it's just dead, delete it.

thanks,

greg k-h