Re: [Open-FCoE] [PATCH] scsi: fix Wunused-but-set-variable buildwarning
From: vasu.dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri May 15 2015 - 13:09:42 EST
On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 09:14 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 2015, Prasad Gondi wrote:
>
> > It seems like rpriv is used to set the fsp->tgt_flags originally
> >
> > > fsp->tgt_flags = rpriv->flags
> >
> > And fsp->tgt_flags are used in "fc_fcp_cmd_send" like this
> >
> > setup_timer(&fsp->timer, fc_fcp_timeout, (unsigned long)fsp);
> > if (rpriv->flags & FC_RP_FLAGS_REC_SUPPORTED)
> > fc_fcp_timer_set(fsp, get_fsp_rec_tov(fsp));
> >
> > Main purpose of this flags used is to set the correct TimeOut Value for fc_fcp_timer.
> >
> > So is the removal of the "fsp->tgt_flags = rpriv->flags" in fc_queuecommand() is intentional? Or by mistake?
> >
> thats something I can't say - but the commit message indicated that the
> removal of tgt_flags was intentional.
>
It was intentional and good cleanup since now rpriv->flags is used
directly with that change instead of storing in fsp->tgt_flags as it was
before.
> > Once we clear that out we can see whether this change make sense?
> >
Anycase the patch under discussion is straight forward clean up patch
since it just removes a local stack variable which is not used.
Thanks,
Vasu
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