Re: [GIT PULL] Staging / IIO driver changes for 5.15-rc1

From: Phillip Potter
Date: Thu Sep 02 2021 - 18:39:55 EST


On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 02:28:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:00 PM Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I left this code in when I wrote ae7471cae00a ("staging: r8188eu: remove
> > rtw_ioctl function") with the intention of modifying and reconnecting,
> > once the changes to struct net_device_ops made their way into the
> > staging tree.
>
> Oh, ok. That explains why the dead code existed.
>
> Yeah, I guess y9ou can resurrect it now with the new siocdevprivate model.
>
> I actually ended up doing that first as part of the merge, until I
> noticed that the code wasn't connected in the staging tree at all and
> then decided to undo my merge and just remove the dead code.
>
> Linus

Dear Linus,

Many thanks, I'll get that done. Have a great Friday/weekend.

Regards,
Phil