netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen-netfront: remove unused variable `extra'

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Date:	Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:28:04 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
CC:	Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com>,
	annie li <annie.li@...cle.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xen.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen-netfront: remove unused variable
 `extra'

(apologies for the late reply, I've been away)

On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 15:26 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> I think Ian's (and my) idea of redundant is that this 'extra' variable
> is never used in the code now and causes confusion. It can be removed
> now and add back in the future if necessary.

Right, the "extra" I was questioning at the top was a local variable in
the Linux code not the XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_FLAG_MORE thing. Although the
variable was related to the handling of that flag it currently was
written and then never read...

Ian.


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