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Re: [PATCH] brcm80211: brcmsmac: dma: Remove some unused functions

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On 01/07/15 00:33, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
2015-01-05 12:06 GMT+01:00 Arend van Spriel<arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On 01/05/15 11:49, Kalle Valo wrote:

Rickard Strandqvist<rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>   writes:

As I hope you can see I have made some changes regarding the
subject-line. Thought it was an advantage to be able to see which file
I actually removed something from. There seems to be a big focus on
getting right on subject-line right in recent weeks.

I wonder why there is a script that takes a file name, and respond
with an appropriate subject line?


Is there a script for this? Anyway, I would say driver name is enough.
Enough about the subject line ;-) I would like to give some general remarks
as you seem to touch a lot of kernel code. First off, I think it is good to
remove unused stuff. However, I would like some more explanation on your
methodology apart from "partially found by using a static code analysis
program". So a cover-letter explaining that would have been nice (maybe
still is). Things like Kconfig option can affect whether function are used
or not so how did you cover that.

Regards,
Arend


I don't think you can really automate this as some drivers do this a bit
differently. You always need to manually check the commit log.

But ok, I change my script accordingly. Should I submit the patch again?


Yes, please resubmit.



Hi Arend

Yes, a script that had been excellent, I think!
I have one as part of my git send-email script, until a week ago, it
was enough that I removed the "drivers/" and changed all "/" to ": "
I have now been expanded my sed pipe a lot (tell me if anyone is interested)
But now I've seen everything from uppercase and [DIR], etc.
So I can not understand how anyone should be able to get the right
name without a good help.

Sure i like to share how I use cppcheck, but is very hesitant to write
this with each patch mails I send though!

I run:
cppcheck --force --quiet --enable=all .

And . is the top-level directory in the kernel repo? I am not familiar with cppcheck, but does it invoke the kernel Makefile. From a quick glance on cppcheck webpage I guess you could enable only the unused function checker.

Or a specific file instead of .

This will include, among other things get a lot of error message such,
+4000 for the kernel.
(style) The function 'xxx' is never used

For these I made a script that searched through all the files after
the function name (cppcheck missed a few). And save the rest so I go
through them and possibly send patches.

All the file? Within the same driver or kernel-wide. So now "go through them" means compile testing with applicable Kconfig selections?

Gr. AvS
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