[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] sound: pci: asihpi: hpifunc.c: Remove some unused functions

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:07:36 +0100,
Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> 
> 2014-12-31 17:45 GMT+01:00 Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>:
> 
> > At Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:41:33 +0100,
> > Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> > >
> > > 2014-12-31 17:07 GMT+01:00 Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>:
> > >
> > > > At Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:17:02 +0100,
> > > > Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Removes some functions that are not used anywhere:
> > > >
> > > > See Eliot's previous reply.  There will be some code changes, so this
> > > > action is no-go as of now.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Takashi
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Takashi
> > >
> > > I have restored the function hpi_adapter_set_property() that Eliot
> > wanted.
> > > And I also have diff the files against the linux-next, but that there are
> > > some notable differences.
> > >
> > > What is it you do not like about my current patch?
> >
> > More code changes may land in near future, so removing functions isn't
> > good at all at this moment.  We need to wait until the all things are
> > settled down.  IOW, forget about this for a while :)
> >
> > And please add Eliot to Cc at the next time.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> 
> 
> + Eliot
> 
> Hi
> 
> Strange, because I ask specifically if it was just one function Eliot objected
> to, and I therefore could resend the patch.

In general, it's bad to do a task like this kind of cleanups during
the code change is planned in future.  There is more risk than gain in
such a case.

You can do it for the really stalling development codes, of course.


Takashi