Re: [patch]fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to_rootfs()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 05:16:10 EST



* Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2008/8/13, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>:
> >
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > the dry_run variable is now unused in unpack_to_rootfs() and could be
> > > eliminated.
> >
> > also, while we are materially touching init/initramfs.c, that file has
> > collected a few uglies in the past few years, checkpatch --file says:
> >
> > total: 7 errors, 7 warnings, 3 checks, 562 lines checked
> >
> > it has a few other problems as well that can be seen if you look at the
> > file. Unused macros:
> >
> > /* Diagnostic functions (stubbed out) */
> > #define Assert(cond,msg)
> > #define Trace(x)
> > #define Tracev(x)
> > #define Tracevv(x)
> > #define Tracec(c,x)
> > #define Tracecv(c,x)
> >
> > #define STATIC static
> > #define INIT __init
> >
> These are not really unused. A few lines later it reads:
>
> #include "../src/inflate.c"
>
> These macros are used within inflate.c

oh, i _knew_ i saw this zlib ugliness sometime in the past.

> (and perhaps the inclusion of inflate.c is not a good idea, maybe this
> should be in lib.a note that inflate.c is also included in
> init/do_mounts_rd.c; fortunately this is all init code (which is
> probably why include was used in the first place))

definitely. It's a different patch though.

Ingo
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