[PATCH] arch: arm: mach-ux500: board-mop500-regulators.c: Remove unused function

Rickard Strandqvist rickard_strandqvist at spectrumdigital.se
Tue Jan 20 15:05:53 PST 2015


2015-01-19 11:00 GMT+01:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>:
> On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:07:47 Lee Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> > On Thursday 01 January 2015 16:40:05 Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
>> > > Remove the function mop500_regulator_init() that is not used anywhere.
>> > >
>> > > This was partially found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist at spectrumdigital.se>
>> >
>> > This looks wrong: For one thing, you failed to notice that now another function
>> > in the same file becomes unused, or that half of the file is not used
>> > anyway.
>> >
>> > It also seems that the fact that this function is not called was an accident
>> > and it should in fact be called. Maybe Lee has some more insight in this,
>> > as he added the function in the first place.
>> >
>> > Finally (unrelated to your patch, but triggered by looking at it), I suspect
>> > we should just move the ab8500_regulator_plat_data and everything it references
>> > to drivers/regulator/ab8500-ext.c, because we only have one instance of it
>> > and won't ever have more.
>>
>> This is old code.  The development of this stuff was halted before it
>> could be finished.  Feel free to remove it and all other unused code
>> it uncovers.
>>
>
> Thanks for the confirmation!
>
> Richard, do you feel up to doing the task of the broader cleanup here?
>
>         Arnd



Hi

Yes, of course :)
Will see how much I can remove or move to
arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpu-db8500.c   like ab8500_regulator_plat_data.
And I believe there is more that I can do the same with.

So something is going on, but need a little more time...


Kind regards
Rickard Strandqvist



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