[alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH v2] ASoC: Intel: sst: Delete sst_shim_regs64; saved regs are never used

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 08:06:38PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
> > In commit 9a075265c6dc ("ASoC: Intel: sst: Remove unused function
> > sst_restore_shim64()"), we deleted the sst_restore_shim64() since it
> > was never used.  ...but a quick look at the code shows that we should
> > also be able to remove the sst_save_shim64() function and the
> > structure members we were storing data in.
> >
> > Once we delete sst_save_shim64() there are no longer any users of the
> > 'sst_shim_regs64' structure.  That means we can delete it completely
> > and also avoid allocating memory for it.  This saves a whopping 136
> > bytes of devm allocated memory.  We also get the nice benefit of
> > avoiding an error path in the init code.
> >
> > Note that the saving code that we're removing (and the comments
> > talking about how important it is to do the save) has been around
> > since commit 336cfbb05edf ("ASoC: Intel: mrfld- add ACPI module").
> 
> I like it!
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>

> P.S. Perhaps there are more leftovers or dead code?

Hope not :) This was due to restore not required eventually. Somehow save
was left pending.


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~Vinod