From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754073AbaILJnT (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2014 05:43:19 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0055.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.55]:50275 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753233AbaILJnR (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2014 05:43:17 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:960:968:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1537:1566:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2828:2903:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3871:3872:4321:5007:6120:7652:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13311:13357:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: grape22_90cfa8923214c X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1504 Message-ID: <1410514993.9942.28.camel@joe-AO725> Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] lib: string: Remove duplicated function From: Joe Perches To: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Andrew Morton , Grant Likely , Andi Kleen , Dan Carpenter , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:43:13 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87d2b1jjqa.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> References: <1409124962-11527-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <1409124962-11527-2-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <20140911152241.22ce7f1ebecef7ce7e01b112@linux-foundation.org> <87d2b1jjqa.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 11:01 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > Would it make sense to add a checkpatch warning to ensure new users > are not introduced, and then remove it when the wrapper is also removed? Generally the rate of introduction is pretty low. Generally, just making sure it's not used is good enough.