Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: remove redundant null check on req

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Req is never null on at the point of the null check, so
> remove this redundant check and just return &req->tx.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1436147 ("Logically dead code")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Colin,

Looks good, can you also include the driver name in your patch subjects?

For example "dmaengine, bcm-scm-raid: remove redundant null check on
req", would make it clear that this is a driver fix and not a core
dmaengine issue.