netdev - Re: [PATCH] scsi_netlink: Remove dead and buggy code

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Message-Id: <20120913.162457.81364799304138498.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:24:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	James.Smart@...lex.Com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_netlink: Remove dead and buggy code

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:48:46 -0400 (EDT)

> From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:40:08 -0700
> 
>> So just for curiosity I searched the entire git history for scsi_nl_add_
>> and the only commit that I found was the addition of that code to the
>> tree in August of 2008.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any reason to keep scsi_nl_add_transport or
>> scsi_nl_add_driver that have never been used in the 4 years since
>> they have been added?
> 
> That's basically the question on the table right now :-)

Time has run out.

Letting legitimate and reasonable patches simply rot for a week is
absolutely never acceptable, so I'm applying Eric's patch to net-next.
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