RE: [PATCH 5/9] ASoC: max98927: Removed obsolete variables

From: Ryan Lee
Date: Fri Sep 01 2017 - 17:38:44 EST


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>Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] ASoC: max98927: Removed obsolete variables
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>On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 04:30:57PM -0700, Ryan Lee wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Lee <ryans.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Why are these variables obsolete? If their use was removed in earlier patches in
>the series they should be handled in that patch, if they're just unused say so. In
>general your changelogs could really benefit from being a bit longer and
>explaining why changes are being made.
>
>> mode change 100644 => 100755 sound/soc/codecs/max98927.h
>
>This also changes the permissions to be executable which isn't what we want.

Thank you for your comment.
I wanted to remove these variables because it have never been referred in max98927.c from the beginning.