Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:05:59 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86: earlyprintk cleanup |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Alexander Kuleshov wrote: > 2015-01-20 16:29 GMT+06:00 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>: > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Alexander Kuleshov wrote: > > > >> The following two patches remove unused macro definitions from > >> early_serial_console and early_printk x86 code. > > > > Sigh. These mechanical 'follow the output of some code analyzer' > > changes are really horrible. > > > > Why not doing the obvious: Move the duplicated defines into a common > > header file and be done with it? > > > > And if you look deeper, then you'll notice that those defines are used > > in two other files as well. > > > > What's worse is that the whole set of defines is readily available in > > include/uapi/linux/serial_reg.h already (just with different symbols). > > > > So what's the point of these removal patches? > > > > To get rid of unused code. Will it be better to move general serial > definitions to the arch/x86/include/asm/serial.h? Or it is wrong > place...
Care to read what I wrote before?
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