Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: mite: Removed variables that is never used

[Rickard Strandqvist]

2015-01-29 15:39 GMT+01:00 Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 28/01/15 22:36, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
>>
>> Variable ar assigned a value that is never used.
>> I have also removed all the code that thereby serves no purpose.
>>
>> This was found using a static code analysis program called cppcheck
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist
>> <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c |    3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c
>> b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c
>> index ffc9e61..8d2903b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c
>> @@ -494,9 +494,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mite_bytes_read_from_memory_ub);
>>   unsigned mite_dma_tcr(struct mite_channel *mite_chan)
>>   {
>>         struct mite_struct *mite = mite_chan->mite;
>> -       int lkar;
>>
>> -       lkar = readl(mite->mite_io_addr + MITE_LKAR(mite_chan->channel));
>> +       readl(mite->mite_io_addr + MITE_LKAR(mite_chan->channel));
>>         return readl(mite->mite_io_addr + MITE_TCR(mite_chan->channel));
>>   }
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mite_dma_tcr);
>>
>
> Reading the MITE_LKAR(channel) register won't have any side-effects, so that
> call to readl() can be removed altogether.  In previous versions of the
> driver, the value of lkar was only used in debugging messages.
>
> --
> -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd.    E-mail: <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> )=-
> -=(                          Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/  )=-


Hi

Ok good, new patch on the way!

Kind regards
Rickard Strandqvist
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