linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ata: sata_gemini: Remove unused gemini_sata_reset

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Message-ID: <Z1ol91qRiLu4vZES@gallifrey>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:53:27 +0000
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
To: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, cassel@...nel.org,
	p.zabel@...gutronix.de, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: sata_gemini: Remove unused
 gemini_sata_reset_bridge()

* Damien Le Moal (dlemoal@...nel.org) wrote:
> On 12/12/24 06:49, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > * Linus Walleij (linus.walleij@...aro.org) wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 2:12 AM <linux@...blig.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
> >>>
> >>> gemini_sata_reset_bridge() was added in 2017 by the initial
> >>> commit be4e456ed3a5 ("ata: Add driver for Faraday Technology FTIDE010")
> >>> but has never been used.
> >>>
> >>> Remove it.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@...blig.org>
> >>
> >> Right it was never used because the corresponding reset in
> >> the low-level PATA driver didn't work so I patched it out before
> >> submitting.
> > 
> > Ah right.
> > 
> >> But should you not also remove sata0_reset and
> >> sata1_reset from struct sata_gemini and the code fetching
> >> the two reset lines? And even #include <linux/reset.h>?
> > 
> > Oh I see, I was just looking for entirely unreferenced functions
> > but that takes a little more following to notice.
> > 
> > I'm happy to do that; are you OK with it as a follow up patch or
> > do you want a v2? (And can you test it, I don't have the hardware).
> 
> I already applied your previous patch. But I can replace it. So either an
> incremental patch or a v2 is fine with me. Thanks.

Follow up patch posted as

Subject: [PATCH] ata: sata_gemini: Remove remaining reset glue
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:52:50 +0000
Message-ID: <20241211235250.136985-1-linux@...blig.org>

Thanks,

Dave

> > 

> > Dave
> > 
> >> Yours,
> >> Linus Walleij
> 
> 
> -- 
> Damien Le Moal
> Western Digital Research
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