[dpdk-stable] patch 'usertools/devbind: remove unused function' has been queued to LTS release 16.11.5

[luca.boccassi@gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 16.11.5

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 02/09/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From ab9697529faf41101a24fa9688db0fe950159c59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:16:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] usertools/devbind: remove unused function

[ upstream commit 02e157e4a84e437bc4bfd542bab7f51772493fe7 ]

Fixes: 629395b063e8 ("igb_uio: remove PCI id table")

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
 tools/dpdk-devbind.py | 34 ----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/dpdk-devbind.py b/tools/dpdk-devbind.py
index e4c6d521d..e7cfcd02a 100755
--- a/tools/dpdk-devbind.py
+++ b/tools/dpdk-devbind.py
@@ -126,40 +126,6 @@ def check_output(args, stderr=None):
                             stderr=stderr).communicate()[0]
 
 
-def find_module(mod):
-    '''find the .ko file for kernel module named mod.
-    Searches the $RTE_SDK/$RTE_TARGET directory, the kernel
-    modules directory and finally under the parent directory of
-    the script '''
-    # check $RTE_SDK/$RTE_TARGET directory
-    if 'RTE_SDK' in os.environ and 'RTE_TARGET' in os.environ:
-        path = "%s/%s/kmod/%s.ko" % (os.environ['RTE_SDK'],
-                                     os.environ['RTE_TARGET'], mod)
-        if exists(path):
-            return path
-
-    # check using depmod
-    try:
-        depmod_out = check_output(["modinfo", "-n", mod],
-                                  stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).lower()
-        if "error" not in depmod_out:
-            path = depmod_out.strip()
-            if exists(path):
-                return path
-    except:  # if modinfo can't find module, it fails, so continue
-        pass
-
-    # check for a copy based off current path
-    tools_dir = dirname(abspath(sys.argv[0]))
-    if (tools_dir.endswith("tools")):
-        base_dir = dirname(tools_dir)
-        find_out = check_output(["find", base_dir, "-name", mod + ".ko"])
-        if len(find_out) > 0:  # something matched
-            path = find_out.splitlines()[0]
-            if exists(path):
-                return path
-
-
 def check_modules():
     '''Checks that igb_uio is loaded'''
     global dpdk_drivers
-- 
2.14.2