Re: [PATCH v2] firewire: Remove function callback casts

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat May 23 2020 - 02:10:43 EST


On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 07:43:08PM +0200, Oscar Carter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:16:24PM +0900, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm an author of ALSA firewire stack and thanks for the patch. I agree with
> > your intention to remove the cast of function callback toward CFI build.
> >
> > Practically, the isochronous context with FW_ISO_CONTEXT_RECEIVE_MULTICHANNEL
> > is never used by in-kernel drivers. Here, I propose to leave current
> > kernel API (fw_iso_context_create() with fw_iso_callback_t) as is.

If it's not used by anyone, why is it still there? Can't we just delete
it?

thanks,

greg k-h