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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com,
	Cristiane Naves <cristianenavescardoso09@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Remove unneeded variable
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:36:04 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1910280934430.2348@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191028082732.GE1944@kadam>



On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 07:24:53PM -0300, Cristiane Naves wrote:
> > Remove unneeded variable used to store return value. Issue found by
> > coccicheck.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cristiane Naves <cristianenavescardoso09@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h | 4 +---
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h b/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> > index b07f5e2..d53bd801 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> > @@ -1387,9 +1387,7 @@ static inline cvmx_pko_status_t cvmx_pko_send_packet_finish(uint64_t port,
> >  		uint64_t queue, union cvmx_pko_command_word0 pko_command,
> >  		union cvmx_buf_ptr packet, cvmx_pko_lock_t use_locking)
> >  {
> > -	cvmx_pko_status_t ret = 0;
> > -
> > -	return ret;
> > +	return 0;
>
> What is the point of this function anyway?

Given that it is in octeon-stubs.h, it seems that the point is to get the
code to compile when COMPILE_TEST is set.  There is a real definition in
arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-pko.h

julia
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-26 22:24 [PATCH] staging: octeon: Remove unneeded variable Cristiane Naves
2019-10-28  8:27 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-28  8:36   ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2019-10-28  8:40     ` Dan Carpenter

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