On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 01:10:40AM -0500, ira.weiny wrote: > The original author and I have been going through the code to see what we can > do. We have identified a couple of other pieces which can be split. > > One question. Is it ok to have functionality which is added which is unused in > a preliminary patch? I believe this is ok as long as the code compiles but I > just wanted to make sure. While there are different operations added in this > patch it is broken to not use them as a set. So we need to have a series which > implement the pieces with a final patch which exposes the set of operations. > > Is this acceptable? Yeah. It's fine. Don't add warnings about unused static functions though. Also we like to see a user in the same patchset so don't add infrastructure first and the user code the next year or whatever. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel