Re: [PATCH] acpi: acpica: utmisc.c: Remove unused function

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, January 05, 2015 08:32:59 AM Zheng, Lv wrote:
> Hi, Rickard
> 
> > From: Rickard Strandqvist [mailto:rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 1:16 AM
> > 
> > Remove the function acpi_ut_is_aml_table() that is not used anywhere.
> 
> This function is used by the ACPICA debugger and disassembler.
> The ACPICA release process has just automatically released this function from the ACPICA code base to the Linux kernel.
> 
> We shouldn't just remove it from the Linux kernel code base.
> If we do so, it's just turned into divergences that can hurt the release automation.
> You may use ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE around these functions instead.

Can we do that in upstream ACPICA?


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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