Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 May 2017 15:46:43 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Remove unused function __rb_data_page_index() |
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On Thu, 18 May 2017 12:40:02 -0700 Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > This appears to have been introduced in 2009 by commit afbab76a62b6 > ("ring-buffer: have read page swap increment counter with page > entries"), which removed the user of the function but not the function > itself. If folks were so inclined, this could be picked back to > linux-stable, but I'm not sure it's worth it.
It doesn't do anything but waste some disk space in the source repository. It's a static inline function, which means it's not created unless something calls it.
Thus, not worth the stable churn.
-- Steve
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