Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] ksz884x: remove unused #defines

From: Simon Horman
Date: Thu Apr 06 2023 - 12:13:00 EST


On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 09:00:17AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:37:36 +0200 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > On Wed, 2023-04-05 at 10:39 +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > Remove unused #defines from ksz884x driver.
> > >
> > > These #defines may have some value in documenting the hardware.
> > > But that information may be accessed via scm history.
> >
> > I personally have a slight preference for keeping these definitions in
> > the sources (for doc purposes), but it's not a big deal.
> >
> > Any 3rd opinion more then welcome!
>
> I had the same reaction, FWIW.
>
> Cleaning up unused "code" macros, pure software stuff makes perfect
> sense. But I feel a bit ambivalent about removing definitions of HW
> registers and bits.

I guess that it two down-votes for removing the #defines.

Would it be acceptable if I reworked the series to only remove
the dead code - which would leave only subset of patch 3/3 ?