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It survived every refactor of the listener > path since, including the recent handler folds. > > Kill it, twenty years is enough. > > Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan > --- > kernel/taskstats.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c > index 598d9cd83250..3997dbb5aead 100644 > --- a/kernel/taskstats.c > +++ b/kernel/taskstats.c > @@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct listener_list, listener_array); > > enum actions { > REGISTER, > - DEREGISTER, > - CPU_DONT_CARE > + DEREGISTER > }; > > static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp, Makes sense! Thanks for catching this Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh