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Re: [PATCH 8/9] rt2800: add eFuse EEPROM support code to rt2800lib

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On Sunday 08 November 2009 20:35:17 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > > > I think that they shouldn't have been added in the first place and I'll be
> > > > > happy to add patch removing them to rt2800 tree (since code savings seem to
> > > > > be really marginal and not worth the maintenance cost). 
> > > > 
> > > > Removing the ifdefs entirely would be fine.
> > > 
> > > Like I said before -- this would mean driver's behavior change.  Even though
> > > WISOC code is currently dead (RALINK_RT288X and RALINK_RT305X are never set)
> > > I prefer to not "overload" patches with logically different changes.
> > > 
> > > If you feel strongly about it please fix it in rt2x00 code and rt2800 tree
> > > will deal with it, or alternatively please send me an incremental patch.
> > 
> > BTW the patch's impact is _320_ bytes increase of rt2800lib (on x86-64 so
> > it is probably much less on the affected embedded architectures):
> > 
> >    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> > before:
> >   16916	      0	      0	  16916	   4214	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.o
> > after:
> >   17281	      0	      0	  17281	   4381	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.o
> > 
> > for the _completely_ dead code (because embedded WISOC support is never
> > enabled) that probably will be changed over anyway later during development.
> 
> As mentioned: Wisoc is not dead code, it is there for the platform devices with

Not in upstream, not in next, not in wireless, not in rt2x00...

=> Not our problem. ;)

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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