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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com>,
	"dmaengine@vger.kernel.org" <dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: remove redundant null check on req
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 08:52:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170519032251.GK15061@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iD5xD8E3E9+gbgmrbD+nNpXfjMqi4WzTA46H9mSv5gvQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:12:00PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> >
> > Req is never null on at the point of the null check, so
> > remove this redundant check and just return &req->tx.
> >
> > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1436147 ("Logically dead code")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> Hi Colin,
> 
> Looks good, can you also include the driver name in your patch subjects?
> 
> For example "dmaengine, bcm-scm-raid: remove redundant null check on
> req", would make it clear that this is a driver fix and not a core
> dmaengine issue.

Yeah that would help, also do the same for static patch you sent on the
driver.
-- 
~Vinod

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-19  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-17 13:35 [PATCH] dmaengine: remove redundant null check on req Colin King
2017-05-17 19:12 ` Dan Williams
2017-05-19  3:22   ` Vinod Koul [this message]

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