On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:36:54PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:50 PM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ...you mentioned code search, where & what should we look at, in order > > to confirm it's safe to remove them? > > Way back there was google's code search, which was awesome. Now I just > put the structure name/ioctl #define/number into > google/bing/duckduckgo and see if anything turns up. Plus check how > it's used in fb tools (although I just recently learned that fb-test > pretty much disappeared from the internet, very hard to find the > original). > > If you're unsure, we can merge a patch, then wait about 1 year for any > users to show up with problems. If that's not the case, assume they're > all gone, or it was never used and just implemented because it was > copied from somewhere else, or "just in case". There's lots of dead > uapi around. I see, it will be my next thing to do. Hopefully this will remove a lot of console_font occurrences. Peilin _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
