Re: [PATCH] staging:iio: Remove noop call to __iio_update_buffer

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On 01/28/2013 10:12 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> __iio_update_buffer updates the buffer's bytes_per_datum and length fields.
> But the only user of this function just passes in these exact fields, so the
> call basically looks like this:
> 
> 	buffer->bytes_per_datum = buffer->bytes_per_datum;
> 	buffer->length = buffer->length;
> 
> Which means it is a noop and can be removed. Also remove the function itself,
> since it is now unused.
Good spot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
added to togreg branch of iio.git
> ---
>  drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c    |  1 -
>  include/linux/iio/buffer.h | 13 -------------
>  2 files changed, 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c b/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
> index 5bc5c86..a923c78 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ static inline int __iio_allocate_kfifo(struct iio_kfifo *buf,
>  	if ((length == 0) || (bytes_per_datum == 0))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	__iio_update_buffer(&buf->buffer, bytes_per_datum, length);
>  	return __kfifo_alloc((struct __kfifo *)&buf->kf, length,
>  			     bytes_per_datum, GFP_KERNEL);
>  }
> diff --git a/include/linux/iio/buffer.h b/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
> index f3eea18..2bac0eb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
> @@ -103,19 +103,6 @@ int iio_update_buffers(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
>   **/
>  void iio_buffer_init(struct iio_buffer *buffer);
>  
> -/**
> - * __iio_update_buffer() - update common elements of buffers
> - * @buffer:		buffer that is the event source
> - * @bytes_per_datum:	size of individual datum including timestamp
> - * @length:		number of datums in buffer
> - **/
> -static inline void __iio_update_buffer(struct iio_buffer *buffer,
> -				       int bytes_per_datum, int length)
> -{
> -	buffer->bytes_per_datum = bytes_per_datum;
> -	buffer->length = length;
> -}
> -
>  int iio_scan_mask_query(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
>  			struct iio_buffer *buffer, int bit);
>  
>