Re: [PATCH 2/3 v4] Staging: rtl8192u: Remove two useless lines at ieee80211_wep_null

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 10:08:19AM +0200, pmarzo wrote:
> On mar, 2015-06-02 at 14:21 +0900, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 12:19:12AM +0200, pmarzo wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2015-05-31 at 10:39 +0900, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:25:18AM +0200, Pedro Marzo Perez wrote:
> > > > > Remove two lines at ieee80211_wep_null which checkpatch.pl reported as errors.
> > > > > The first one because it has a C99 comment style and the second one because it is a void
> > > > > return which is useless.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Pedro Marzo Perez <marzo.pedro@gmail.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c | 2 --
> > > > >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
> > > > > index bd789d1..94622cc 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
> > > > > @@ -279,6 +279,4 @@ void __exit ieee80211_crypto_wep_exit(void)
> > > > >  
> > > > >  void ieee80211_wep_null(void)
> > > > >  {
> > > > > -//	printk("============>%s()\n", __func__);
> > > > > -	return;
> > > > >  }
> > > > 
> > > > Please just delete the function.
> > > 
> > > It is not so easy, the function is exported at file
> > > drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h and used at
> > > drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c line 179 with
> > > several other "null" functions, it seems a dirty trick to force module
> > > loading:
> > > /* These function were added to load crypte module autoly */
> > >     ieee80211_tkip_null();
> > >     ieee80211_wep_null();
> > >     ieee80211_ccmp_null();
> > > 
> > > I guess all this stuff should be rewritten to force the autoload
> > > properly but I don't have the knowledge to fix all this.
> > > Sorry Greg :-(
> > 
> > Ugh, that's a mess.  Ok, I'll take this patch again, please resend it.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > > 
> 
> Ok, no problem, just not sure what do I have to resend.
> 
> Should I resend the whole serie of three patches 1/3 2/3 3/3? 
> I received an e-mail confirming the acceptance of patch 3/3 on your
> staging tree, no news about patch 1/3 yet, so it may confuse you if I
> resend all of them.

Resend whatever I have not yet applied.

thanks,

greg k-h