Re: [PATCHv4 12/17] pps: timestamp is always passed to dcd_change()

[Alexander Gordeev]

Ð Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:23:04 +0100
Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ÐÐÑÐÑ:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:01:05PM +0300, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> > Remove the code that gatheres timestamp in pps_tty_dcd_change() in case
> > passed ts parameter is NULL because it never happens in the current
> > code. Fix comments as well.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/serial/tty.txt    |    2 +-
> >  drivers/pps/clients/pps-ldisc.c |    8 --------
> >  include/linux/tty_ldisc.h       |    2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt
> > index 7c90050..540db41 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt
> > @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ write_wakeup()	-	May be called at any point between open and close.
> >  
> >  dcd_change()	-	Report to the tty line the current DCD pin status
> >  			changes and the relative timestamp. The timestamp
> > -			can be NULL.
> > +			cannot be NULL.
> 
> Can you please explain why it cannot be null? O_o
> 
> Who does supply the timestamp to dcd_change?

dcd_change() is called only from one place - uart_handle_dcd_change() -
which always obtains and passes timestamps to the former. So no need to
check if ts is NULL and obtain ts again.

-- 
  Alexander

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