Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code

From: Kristen Carlson Accardi
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 18:50:07 EST


On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:24:27 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
pcihpd-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:51:40PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:51:05 +0200
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > If !mem_node we did already return -ENOMEM above in the function.
> > >
> > > Spotted by the Coverity checker.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Greg - you are listed as the maintainer for this driver.
>
> Not anymore, look at 2.6.23-rc1 :)
>
> > Can you either
> > point me to someone who can review this patch or review it yourself?
> > Looking at the code, it looks like it's possible that the driver writer
> > wanted this code patch to be able to be taken if it got IO resources
> > and not MEM resources, and if they didn't there's other cleanups that
> > should be done for the no iomem case.
>
> Hm, I agree that this looks like the way the code was intended to work,
> but as this code has been working just fine so far the way it is, I'm
> not inclined to change it much, if any.
>
> Especially as I no longer even have the hardware to test it on :(
>
> So, how about we just leave it alone?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

fine by me - let's NAK this patch (and all future ones for this driver) until
someone with hardware steps up to maintain this driver. Eventually it
will just die I guess.
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