[PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment

[PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment

[Julia Lawall]

From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Delete successive assignments to the same location.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression i;
@@

*i = ...;
 i = ...;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

---
 drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
index 2d61186..e8c2199 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -8497,7 +8497,6 @@ static void ibm_exit(struct ibm_struct *ibm)
 					   ibm->acpi->type,
 					   dispatch_acpi_notify);
 		ibm->flags.acpi_notify_installed = 0;
-		ibm->flags.acpi_notify_installed = 0;
 	}
 
 	if (ibm->flags.proc_created) {

Re: [PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> Delete successive assignments to the same location.

There are often results of mismerges or other assorted screw ups, often
done by the maintainer itself (e.g. me in thinkpad-acpi's case) during
development.

The patch is correct, and I thank you for the head's up.  But let me
track down what caused it first, hmm?  I also highly recommend that this
should be done in all cases you find, instead of just blindly fixing the
assignment.  I suggest using git --blame to track down what added the
duplicated assignments, and check if it looks sane...

It is often a VERY BAD IDEA to remove such markers of potential
brokennes without checking out if they're actually helpfully trying to
warn you of worse badness :p

But hey, maybe you've already done that.  If you did, I apologise for
preaching to the choir.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> > 
> > Delete successive assignments to the same location.
> 
> There are often results of mismerges or other assorted screw ups, often
> done by the maintainer itself (e.g. me in thinkpad-acpi's case) during
> development.

Which was the case, and the error was just a duplicate line indeed and not
anything more damaging in one of my commits done a few years ago.

So,

Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

Re: [PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:09:08PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> > 
> > Delete successive assignments to the same location.
> 
> There are often results of mismerges or other assorted screw ups, often
> done by the maintainer itself (e.g. me in thinkpad-acpi's case) during
> development.
> 
> The patch is correct, and I thank you for the head's up.  But let me
> track down what caused it first, hmm?  I also highly recommend that this
> should be done in all cases you find, instead of just blindly fixing the
> assignment.

I've reviewed the entire patchset per your suggestion and Julia
obviously didn't do it blindly.  It all looks good.  The patcheset fixes
a number of bugs.

regards,
dan carpenter

Re: [PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment

[Julia Lawall]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> > 
> > Delete successive assignments to the same location.
> 
> There are often results of mismerges or other assorted screw ups, often
> done by the maintainer itself (e.g. me in thinkpad-acpi's case) during
> development.
> 
> The patch is correct, and I thank you for the head's up.  But let me
> track down what caused it first, hmm?  I also highly recommend that this
> should be done in all cases you find, instead of just blindly fixing the
> assignment.  I suggest using git --blame to track down what added the
> duplicated assignments, and check if it looks sane...
> 
> It is often a VERY BAD IDEA to remove such markers of potential
> brokennes without checking out if they're actually helpfully trying to
> warn you of worse badness :p
> 
> But hey, maybe you've already done that.  If you did, I apologise for
> preaching to the choir.

I didn't look for the original source of the problem, except in the case 
of [PATCH 6/14] arch/mips/pmc-sierra/yosemite/setup.c where I found it 
already in the pre-git era.  Thanks fo rthe suggestion.  On the other 
hand, I was very selective about which code I changed.  In particular I 
left a number of cases like:

x = NULL; // or 0 etc
x = foo(...); // ie a NULL returning function

I figured that this isn't hurting anything, and perhaps it is informative 
about what kind of value foo might return.

julia

Re: [PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:09:08PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> > > 
> > > Delete successive assignments to the same location.
> > 
> > There are often results of mismerges or other assorted screw ups, often
> > done by the maintainer itself (e.g. me in thinkpad-acpi's case) during
> > development.
> > 
> > The patch is correct, and I thank you for the head's up.  But let me
> > track down what caused it first, hmm?  I also highly recommend that this
> > should be done in all cases you find, instead of just blindly fixing the
> > assignment.
> 
> I've reviewed the entire patchset per your suggestion and Julia
> obviously didn't do it blindly.  It all looks good.  The patcheset fixes
> a number of bugs.

Thank you, Dan and Julia.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

Re: [PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete double assignment

[Matthew Garrett]

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org

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