Re: [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: remove code duplication indrivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_pci.c

[Andrew Morton]

Rolf Eike Beer <eike-hotplug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Greg KH wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.2181.16.9, 2005/03/17 13:54:33-08:00, eike-hotplug@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: remove code duplication in
> > drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_pci.c
> >
> > This patch removes some code duplication where if and else have the
> > same code at the beginning and the end of the branch.
> 
> Greg, as you correctly pointed out this patch if broken. It could never reach 
> the if branch and always uses the else branch. Please drop this one and 
> review the patch I sent on March 21th to pcihp-discuss for inclusion. It 
> removes much more duplication and handles this case correctly. Sorry, it 
> looks like I forgot to CC you. I'll bounce this mail to you.
> 

It's merged now, so sending a new patch which fixes that file up might be
simpler and less error-prone.

Latest ibmphp_pci.c causes gcc-2.95.4 to go into an infinite loop,
consuming 750MB of memory, which is a bit irritating.

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