Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:28:25 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
       pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code
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> Silly is in the eye of the beholder.  I don't want to take this patch
> because it needs to be reviewed by someone who really knows the intent
> of the driver.  Seems silly to me to blindly take patches.

For unmaintained code we usually work on wackipedia theory ("its probably
right but if not we can revert it/update it cheaply")

Alan
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