[PATCH] drm/amd/display: remove redundant check

[José Pekkarinen]

On 2023-10-31 14:20, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 01:42:17PM +0200, José Pekkarinen wrote:
>> On 2023-10-31 07:48, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 07:17:48PM +0200, José Pekkarinen wrote:
>> > > This patch addresses the following warning spotted by
>> > > using coccinelle where the case checked does the same
>> > > than the else case.
>> > >
>> > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/dcn32/display_mode_vba_util_32.c:4664:8-10:
>> > > WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)
>> > >
>> > > Fixes: 974ce181 ("drm/amd/display: Add check for PState change in
>> > > DCN32")
>> > >
>> > > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>> >
>> > Why is this relevant for stable?
>> 
>>     Hi,
>> 
>>     I was asked to send it for stable because this code
>> looks different in amd-staging-drm-next, see here.
>> 
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/blob/amd-staging-drm-next/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/dcn32/display_mode_vba_util_32.c#L4661
> 
> I don't know what I am looking at, sorry.
> 
>>     Feel free to let me know if this is wrong, or if I
>> need to review some other guidelines I may have missed.
> 
> Please see the list of rules for stable patches:
>     
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> 
> Does "remove code that does nothing" fit here?

     Yep, it is a trivial fix which compilers should be able
to optimize, so no real benefit to the user. Sorry Greg!

     José.