Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: PCI: ops-emma2rh: drop nonsensical db_assert

[Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:30:30AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 05:14:21PM +0100, Paul Burton wrote:
> 
> > The db_assert call checks whether the bus_num pointer is non-NULL, but
> > does so after said pointer has been dereferenced by the assignment on
> > the previous line. Thus the check is pointless & likely to have been
> > optimised out by the compiler anyway. The check_args function is static
> > & only ever called from the local file with bus_num being a pointer to
> > an on-stack variable, so the check seems somewhat overzealous anyway.
> > Simply remove it.
> 
> Thanks, applied.
> 
> Your patch btw. leaves the db_verify() macro as the sole caller of
> db_assert() and db_verify() itself is unused and in fact, nothing
> includes <asm/debug.h> anymore.  Removing <asm/debug.h> leaves
> CONFIG_RUNTIME_DEBUG unused, so I'm removing that one, too.
> 
>   Ralf

Hi Ralf,

That's precisely what led me to write this patch, and precisely what the
following patch I submitted (MIPS: drop CONFIG_RUNTIME_DEBUG & debug.h)
does:

    http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10693/

Thanks,
    Paul