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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: frowand.list@gmail.com, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com,
	Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] of: Remove comments that state the obvious
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:29:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1477430953.1998.19.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477429146-27039-2-git-send-email-frowand.list@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 13:58 -0700, frowand.list@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
> 
> Remove comments that state the obvious, to reduce clutter

Some of these removals might be overly aggressive.

> diff --git a/drivers/of/resolver.c b/drivers/of/resolver.c
[]
> @@ -125,7 +114,6 @@ static int __of_adjust_phandle_ref(struct device_node *node,
>  	int offset, propcurlen;
>  	int err = 0;
>  
> -	/* make a copy */
>  	propval = kmalloc(rprop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!propval) {
>  		pr_err("%s: Could not copy value of '%s'\n",ld

This kmalloc/memcpy could use kmemdup instead.

It doesn't really need the pr_err either as kmalloc and/or
kmemdup get a generic OOM message.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-25 20:58 [RFC PATCH 00/13] of: Make drivers/of/resolver.c more readable frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:58 ` [RFC PATCH 01/13] of: Remove comments that state the obvious frowand.list
2016-10-25 21:29   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-10-27 12:18   ` Rob Herring
2016-10-27 16:02     ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-25 20:58 ` [RFC PATCH 02/13] of: Remove excessive printks to reduce clutter frowand.list
2016-10-27 12:21   ` Rob Herring
2016-10-27 13:51     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2016-10-27 16:09       ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-27 16:04     ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-25 20:58 ` [RFC PATCH 03/13] of: Remove braces around single line blocks frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:58 ` [RFC PATCH 04/13] of: Convert comparisons to zero or NULL to simplify logical expressions frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:58 ` [RFC PATCH 05/13] of: Rename functions to more accurately reflect what they do frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:58 ` [RFC PATCH 06/13] of: Remove prefix "__of_" and prefix "__" from local function names frowand.list
2016-10-27 12:47   ` Rob Herring
2016-10-27 16:35     ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-27 16:58       ` Rob Herring
2016-10-27 18:25         ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-27 20:20           ` Rob Herring
2016-10-25 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 07/13] of: Rename variables to better reflect purpose or follow convention frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 08/13] of: Update structure of code, remove BUG_ON() frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 09/13] of: Remove redundant size check frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 10/13] of: Update comments to reflect changes and increase clarity frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 11/13] of: Add back an error message, restructured frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 12/13] of: Move setting of pointer to beside test for non-null frowand.list
2016-10-25 20:59 ` [RFC PATCH 13/13] of: Remove unused variable overlay_symbols frowand.list
2016-10-27 14:41   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2016-10-27 16:27     ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-27 16:53       ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-27 16:57         ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 00/13] of: Make drivers/of/resolver.c more readable Frank Rowand
2016-10-27 12:03   ` Rob Herring
2016-10-27 16:36     ` Frank Rowand
2016-10-27 13:46   ` Pantelis Antoniou

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