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From: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>
To: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>
Cc: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>,
	mdf@kernel.org, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, trix@redhat.com,
	lgoncalv@redhat.com, hao.wu@intel.com, matthew.gerlach@intel.com,
	richard.gong@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/5] fpga: altera-pr-ip: Remove fpga_mgr_unregister() call
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 09:45:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMDwGwJTebfq4wWl@epycbox.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a764584a-a1f8-88dd-2728-9e4092784717@intel.com>

On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 09:25:31AM -0700, Russ Weight wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/9/21 8:37 AM, Xu Yilun wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:49:22PM -0700, Russ Weight wrote:
> >> The altera-pr-ip driver uses the devm_fpga_mgr_register() call, so it is
> >> unnecessary to call fpga_mgr_unregister(). Also, mgr is no longer stored
> >> in the dev.driver_data, so remove the call to dev_get_drvdata().
> >>
> >> alt_pr_unregister() is now an empty function, but is left intact because
> >> it is an exported symbol.
> > I don't see this function be called anywhere, so could we just remove
> > it?
> >
> > Any impact we remove an exported symbol that is not used?
> 
> Only if there are out-of-tree drivers that use it. What do other's think? Can we remove this?

We don't care about out-of-tree drivers. Please remove it.

- Moritz

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-09 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-09  0:49 [PATCH v1 0/5] fpga: Populate dev_release functions Russ Weight
2021-06-09  0:49 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] fpga: mgr: Use standard dev_release for class driver Russ Weight
2021-06-09 15:28   ` Xu Yilun
2021-06-09 15:57     ` Russ Weight
2021-06-09  0:49 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] fpga: altera-pr-ip: Remove fpga_mgr_unregister() call Russ Weight
2021-06-09 15:37   ` Xu Yilun
2021-06-09 16:25     ` Russ Weight
2021-06-09 16:45       ` Moritz Fischer [this message]
2021-06-09  0:49 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] fpga: stratix10-soc: Add missing fpga_mgr_free() call Russ Weight
2021-06-09 15:50   ` Xu Yilun
2021-06-09  0:49 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] fpga: bridge: Use standard dev_release for class driver Russ Weight
2021-06-09 15:58   ` Xu Yilun
2021-06-09  0:49 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] fpga: region: " Russ Weight
2021-06-09 16:01   ` Xu Yilun

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