Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] usbnet.c: remove an unused function

[David Brownell]

On Friday 29 October 2004 16:27, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:17:30PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:

> > p.s. Last I looked, GCC ignored unused inlines; no code
> >      generated, no warnings.  Did that change?
> >...
> 
> It didn't change.
> 
> But there are three different possible reactions on my patches:
> 1. ACK, kill this dead code
> 2. ups, I really wanted to use this function
> 3. please keep, code using this function will/might follow in the future
> 
> Case 1 is the most common case (and this simply removes some dead code).
> 
> I had until now two times case 2 (which means the code is now better).
> 
> You are the first person for case 3.

And presumably there will also be at least a few case 4:

  4. no response, treated as an ACK.

:)

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