Re: [PATCH for-next] RDMA/hns: Remove unused variables and definitions

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On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:27:56PM +0000, liweihang wrote:
> On 2020/9/28 19:55, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 05:52:21PM +0800, Weihang Li wrote:
> >> From: Lang Cheng <chenglang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Some code was removed but the variables were still there, and some
> >> parameters have been changed to be queried from firmware. So the
> >> definitions of them are no longer needed.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Lang Cheng <chenglang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Weihang Li <liweihang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_device.h | 8 --------
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_qp.c     | 2 --
> >>  2 files changed, 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Should have a fixes for the patch that removed the code
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Thanks for the comment. But I'm confused about when we should add
> fixes tag.
> 
> For example, The only purpose of this patch is to remove redundant
> macro definitions, the macros to be removed belong to 4 different
> former patches, so we have to add 4 lines of fixes. It seems difficult
> to merge this one back to previous versions of kernel.

You can just list all four patches

Jason



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