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Date:   Wed, 4 Nov 2020 14:22:00 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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        Dustin McIntire <dustin@sensoria.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] net: ethernet: smsc: smc911x: Mark 'status' as
 __maybe_unused
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On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 09:06:00AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> 'status' is used to interact with a hardware register.  It might not
> be safe to remove it entirely.  Mark it as __maybe_unused instead.

Hi Lee

https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg365875.html

I'm working on driver/net/ethernet and net to make it w=1 clean.  I
suggest you hang out on the netdev mailing list so you don't waste
your time reproducing what i am doing.

     Andrew