[PATCH] net: wireless: b43legacy: radio.c: Remove unused function

[Rickard Strandqvist]

2015-01-03 14:19 GMT+01:00 Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com>:
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Rickard Strandqvist
> <rickard_strandqvist at spectrumdigital.se> wrote:
> > 2015-01-02 22:34 GMT+01:00 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> On 2 January 2015 at 18:46, Rickard Strandqvist
> >> <rickard_strandqvist at spectrumdigital.se> wrote:
> >> > 2015-01-02 13:14 GMT+01:00 Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com>:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > On 2 January 2015 at 13:05, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> On 1 January 2015 at 16:46, Rickard Strandqvist
> >> >> >> <rickard_strandqvist at spectrumdigital.se> wrote:
> >> >> >>> Remove the function b43legacy_radio_set_tx_iq() that is not used
> >> >> >>> anywhere.
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> This was partially found by using a static code analysis program
> >> >> >>> called cppcheck.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> It seems to be for A-PHY based hardware (with 0x2060 radio id) which
> >> >> >> is not handled by b43legacy. Should be safe to drop this code (we
> >> >> >> won't likely need it).
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Ack
> >> >> >
> >> >> > For future, we prefix patches with just a driver name. So this could
> >> >> > be simply called
> >> >> > b43legacy: radio.c: Remove unused function
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Alternatively...
> >> >>
> >> >> "b43legacy: Remove unused function in radio.c"
> >> >>
> >> >> BTW, as Arnd Bergmann pointed out [1] how did you test with cppcheck
> >> >> to get such stuff?
> >> >>
> >> >> - Sedat -
> >> >>
> >> >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/2/51
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Hi Rafal and Sedat
> >> >
> >> > Rafal do you mean I should remove the entire b43legacy part?
> >>
> >> 1) I gave you Ack for the changes
> >> 2) You could drop "net: wireless: " or better use something Sedat proposed
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rafał
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Nice, yes I miss the Ack :)
> >
> > I just got one more complaining about my subject-line in "net: wireless: "
> > I use some sed call for this, so it's easy to fix. I will now remove that
> > part hereinafter.
> > I check in Documentation/ but did not find any clear info for this.
> >
>
> The easiest way to make (sub)maintainers happy is to check the git-log...
>
> $ git log --oneline /path/to/file
>
> ...and look how other contributors labeled their patches.
>
> [1] is the 1st address to look at on how to submit patches to Linux-kernel.
> To promote the good work of Greg, see [2,3] for a video and tutorial
> on that topic, too.
>
> - Sedat -
>
> [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXix80GCvpo
> [3] https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-tutorial



Hi Sedat

Thanks for the tip :)

To bad with the audio in the video thow. Have read SubmittingPatches before.


But I have now added a line in my script that does a:

git log -10 --oneline

So I can at least see the other subjekt lines, and make adjustments if
necessary.



Kind regards
Rickard Strandqvist