Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 2021 14:28:02 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Staging / IIO driver changes for 5.15-rc1 |
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:00 PM Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk> wrote: > > I left this code in when I wrote ae7471cae00a ("staging: r8188eu: remove > rtw_ioctl function") with the intention of modifying and reconnecting, > once the changes to struct net_device_ops made their way into the > staging tree.
Oh, ok. That explains why the dead code existed.
Yeah, I guess y9ou can resurrect it now with the new siocdevprivate model.
I actually ended up doing that first as part of the merge, until I noticed that the code wasn't connected in the staging tree at all and then decided to undo my merge and just remove the dead code.
Linus
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