[alsa-devel] [PATCH -mm] sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_a3d.c remove unused code

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:35:53 +0200,
Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> 
> Hi Rene,
> 
> Rene Herman napisał(a):
> > On 03/25/2007 05:50 PM, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > 
> >> This patch is against the latest -mm snapshot.
> > 
> > The maintainers of the drivers you submitted these against are in a
> > better position to comment but generally I wish people wouldn't do this.
> > 
> > Disabled code normally serves as a reminder of how things either should
> > or could be done, sometimes how they were done before, but aren't done
> > currently and the developer made them into a comment for the reason of
> > maybe wanting to revisit that decision later.
> > 
> > It's not in the way. With a possible exception for some really old cruft
> > that's just sitting there taking up space in drivers that aren't being
> > maintained, I believe this should generally be left alone.
> > 
> > Rene.
> > 
> 
> I think, that nobody cares about this '#if 0's

The drivers that aren't currently being developed don't mean that
there will be someone to develop in future.

Many #if 0's are there for future extensions or for the current
workarounds.  Hence I prefer keeping them with proper comments.
Let driver authors add comments there instead of blindly killing.


Takashi