[PATCH 1/8] drm/ingenic: Remove dead code

[Paul Cercueil]

Hi Joe,

Le dim., août 8 2021 at 11:27:34 -0700, Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> 
a écrit :
> On Sun, 2021-08-08 at 19:58 +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> 
>>  Am 08.08.21 um 15:45 schrieb Paul Cercueil:
>>  > The priv->ipu_plane would get a different value further down the 
>> code,
>>  > without the first assigned value being read first; so the first
>>  > assignation can be dropped.
>>  >
>>  > Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul at crapouillou.net>
>> 
>>  Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> 
> I think this is at best an incomplete description.
> 
> How is it known that this priv->ipu_plane assignment isn't
> necessary for any path of any failure path after this assignment
> and before the new assignment?

It is only used in the .atomic_begin and .atomic_check callbacks of the 
CRTC. These will only ever be called after the call to 
drm_dev_register() which happens at the end of the probe function.

Cheers,
-Paul

>>  > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c 
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c
> []
>>  > @@ -984,9 +984,6 @@ static int ingenic_drm_bind(struct device 
>> *dev, bool has_components)
>>  >   	priv->dma_hwdescs->hwdesc_pal.cmd = JZ_LCD_CMD_ENABLE_PAL
>>  >   		| (sizeof(priv->dma_hwdescs->palette) / 4);
>>  >
>>  > -	if (soc_info->has_osd)
>>  > -		priv->ipu_plane = drm_plane_from_index(drm, 0);
>>  > -
>>  >   	primary = priv->soc_info->has_osd ? &priv->f1 : &priv->f0;
>>  >
>>  >   	drm_plane_helper_add(primary, &ingenic_drm_plane_helper_funcs);
>>  >
>> 
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