Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove static HalDetectPwrDownMode() function

[Nikolay Kulikov]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 09:03:21AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 10:34:48PM +0300, Nikolay Kulikov wrote:
> > The return value of this function is ignored at the call site, and since
> > the function has no side effects (except for the assignment to
> > pHalData->pwrdown, which is not used anywhere else), it can be removed.
> > 
> > At the same time, remove the efuse shadow functions, as they are
> > becoming unused.
> 
> Why not remove pwrdown first, which shows that it is never actually
> used, and then remove the functions in a separate patch?  that would
> "prove" that this is a safe change, as-is we need to manually verify
> this patch is correct.

Yes, that really would be better. I will do that in v2.