[PATCH 08/13] drm/ast: Remove dead code from cbr_scan2

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Mon Apr 7 12:54:08 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> On 04/05/2014 02:44 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> The outer if already checks for data != 0, so it can't really be
>> 0. Hence remove it.
>>
>> Now I don't have specs or anything for this beast, so I have no
>> idea whether this was actually intended or whether the logic
>> should be different. At least the code still seems to be doing
>> something useful.
>>
>> Spotted by coverity.
>>
>> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_post.c | 2 --
>>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_post.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_post.c
>> index 977cfb35837a..6263116054b6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_post.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_post.c
>> @@ -572,8 +572,6 @@ static u32 cbr_scan2(struct ast_private *ast)
>>               for (loop = 0; loop < CBR_PASSNUM2; loop++) {
>>                       if ((data = cbr_test2(ast)) != 0) {
>>                               data2 &= data;
>> -                             if (!data)
>> -                                     return 0;
>
> That feels like a typo... was that supposed to be 'if (!data2)'?

Yeah this one really needs a close look, since I have no idea what's
actually intended behaviour. The patch just removes the dead code as
it is now, and the double-loop still makes some sense imo after this
change. But I really don't know the spec for this hw.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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