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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver/net: remove unnecessary macro for
	unused variables
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 17:24:45 +0800
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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:26:00AM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 5/15/2017 10:19 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:17:43AM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> >> On 5/12/2017 11:33 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> >>> remove __rte_unused instances that are not required.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Yuanhan,
> >>
> >> Does this kind of refactoring patches, specially the ones covering
> >> multiple drivers, cause trouble (more conflicts) to you while getting
> >> patches for stable trees?
> > 
> > Yes, it's likely.
> > 
> >> If so, I can postpone them through the end of integration deadline.
> > 
> > I don't think it's necessary though. If a conflict happens, I will ask
> > the author to do backport :)
> 
> OK, thanks for clarifying ...
> 
> So, result is, refactoring patches won't be pushed through end of the
> release.

Yes, I see no strong need for that.

	--yliu