[PATCH 4/4] powerpc/mpic: remove unused functions
Arseny Solokha
asolokha at kb.kras.ru
Fri Feb 20 15:40:33 AEDT 2015
> If I just get a patch saying "removed unused foo()", I have to go and dig and
> find out:
> - was it recently added and will be used soon?
> - is it ancient and never used, if so can we work out why, ie. feature X
> never landed so this code is no longer needed.
> - is it old code that *was* used but isn't now because commit ... removed the
> last user.
> - is it code that *should* be used, but isn't for some odd reason?
>
>
> So if you can provide that sort of detail for me, that really adds value to the
> patch. Otherwise the patch is basically just a TODO for me, to go and work out
> why the code is unused.
Got it. Will resend the whole series one of these days.
Arsény
> cheers
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