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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] raid: substitute empty_zero_page with helper
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To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
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        Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
        Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
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From:   Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
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Hi Christoph, All,

On 19/10/22 13:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:57:55PM +0200, Giulio Benetti wrote:
>>   #if RAID6_USE_EMPTY_ZERO_PAGE
>> -# define raid6_empty_zero_page empty_zero_page
>> +# define raid6_empty_zero_page ZERO_PAGE(0)
>>   #else
>>   extern const char raid6_empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE];
> 
> RAID6_USE_EMPTY_ZERO_PAGE is never set to a non-zero value.  So this
> is dead code and we can just remove all code related to the
> RAID6_USE_EMPTY_ZERO_PAGE case.

Here is a patch that removes that unused code:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221019160407.7550-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com/T/#u

and then makes this one useless so I ask to drop it please.

Thank you!

Best regards
-- 
Giulio Benetti
CEO/CTO@Benetti Engineering sas