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From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
To: Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@cern.ch>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, cota@braap.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: vme: remove unreachable code
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:19:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D652574.8040206@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110223151618.GA27806@becoht-mvanga>

On 23/02/11 15:16, Manohar Vanga wrote:
>>> There are two problems with this loop.  1) It unregisters the device
>>> which failed to register.  2) It is a forever loop.
>>>
>>
>> Even if "i" is a signed int?
> 
> The infinite loop is because "i" is not decremented anywhere in the loop. Not
> because of signedness.
> 

Ah, yeah, that would help.

Martyn

> Thanks,
> Manohar Vanga


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-23 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1298403376-28352-1-git-send-email-manohar.vanga@cern.ch>
     [not found] ` <1298403376-28352-2-git-send-email-manohar.vanga@cern.ch>
2011-02-23  9:19   ` [PATCH 1/2] Staging: vme: remove unreachable code Martyn Welch
2011-02-23 12:17     ` Dan Carpenter
2011-02-23 15:09       ` Martyn Welch
2011-02-23 15:16         ` Manohar Vanga
2011-02-23 15:19           ` Martyn Welch [this message]
     [not found] ` <1298403376-28352-3-git-send-email-manohar.vanga@cern.ch>
2011-02-23  9:24   ` [PATCH 2/2] Staging: vme: fix potential infinite loop Manohar Vanga
2011-02-23 13:25 [PATCH 0/2] staging: vme: fix issues in vme_register_bridge Manohar Vanga
2011-02-23 13:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: vme: remove unreachable code Manohar Vanga
2011-02-23 13:56   ` Dan Carpenter
2011-02-23 17:00   ` Martyn Welch

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