Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] staging: qlge: clean up code that dump info to dmesg

From: Benjamin Poirier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:57:17 +0900

On 2020-08-15 00:06 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
> The related code are not necessary because,
> - Device status and general registers can be obtained by ethtool.
> - Coredump can be done via devlink health reporter.
> - Structure related to the hardware (struct ql_adapter) can be obtained
>   by crash or drgn.

I would suggest to add the drgn script from the cover letter to
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/

I would also suggest to submit a separate patch now which fixes the
build breakage reported in <20200629053004.GA6165@f3> while you work on
removing that code.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h         |  82 ----
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c     | 672 ----------------------------
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c |   1 -
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c    |   6 -
>  4 files changed, 761 deletions(-)
> 
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
> index 058889687907..368394123d16 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
> @@ -1326,675 +1326,3 @@ void ql_mpi_core_to_log(struct work_struct *work)
>  		       sizeof(*qdev->mpi_coredump), false);
>  }
> 
> -#ifdef QL_REG_DUMP
> -static void ql_dump_intr_states(struct ql_adapter *qdev)
> -{
[...]
> -	}
> -}
> -#endif

This leaves a stray newline at the end of the file and also does not
apply over latest staging.