From: "José Pekkarinen" <jose.pekkarinen@foxhound.fi>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: harry.wentland@amd.com, sunpeng.li@amd.com,
Rodrigo.Siqueira@amd.com, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
dillon.varone@amd.com,
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christian.koenig@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: remove redundant check
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:32:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175edcbdf0d0a55d39a87f220259528@foxhound.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2023103141-clear-scale-897a@gregkh>
On 2023-10-31 14:20, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 01:42:17PM +0200, José Pekkarinen wrote:
>> On 2023-10-31 07:48, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 07:17:48PM +0200, José Pekkarinen wrote:
>> > > This patch addresses the following warning spotted by
>> > > using coccinelle where the case checked does the same
>> > > than the else case.
>> > >
>> > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/dcn32/display_mode_vba_util_32.c:4664:8-10:
>> > > WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)
>> > >
>> > > Fixes: 974ce181 ("drm/amd/display: Add check for PState change in
>> > > DCN32")
>> > >
>> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> >
>> > Why is this relevant for stable?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was asked to send it for stable because this code
>> looks different in amd-staging-drm-next, see here.
>>
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/blob/amd-staging-drm-next/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/dcn32/display_mode_vba_util_32.c#L4661
>
> I don't know what I am looking at, sorry.
>
>> Feel free to let me know if this is wrong, or if I
>> need to review some other guidelines I may have missed.
>
> Please see the list of rules for stable patches:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
>
> Does "remove code that does nothing" fit here?
Yep, it is a trivial fix which compilers should be able
to optimize, so no real benefit to the user. Sorry Greg!
José.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-31 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-30 17:17 [PATCH] drm/amd/display: remove redundant check José Pekkarinen
2023-10-30 17:39 ` Aurabindo Pillai
2023-10-31 5:48 ` Greg KH
2023-10-31 11:42 ` José Pekkarinen
2023-10-31 12:20 ` Greg KH
2023-10-31 12:32 ` José Pekkarinen [this message]
2023-10-31 16:41 ` Aurabindo Pillai
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-10-30 17:04 José Pekkarinen
2023-10-29 12:44 José Pekkarinen
2023-10-30 13:52 ` Aurabindo Pillai
2023-10-30 16:26 ` José Pekkarinen
2023-10-30 16:53 ` Aurabindo Pillai
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