Re: [PATCH] ASoC: samsung: Remove tests of member address

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Mon Dec 12 2016 - 08:35:51 EST



Hi,

On Saturday, December 10, 2016 11:51:11 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> The driver was checking for non-NULL address of struct's members:
> - s3c_audio_pdata->type (union),
> - s3c_audio_pdata->type.i2s (embedded struct).
>
> This is pointless as these will be always non-NULL. The 's3c_audio_pdata'
> is always initialized in static memory so it will be zeroed.
> Additionally the 'type' member was an union with only one member.
>
> It is safe to reorganize the structures to get rid of useless union and
> checks for addresses to fix the coccinelle warning:
> >> sound/soc/samsung/i2s.c:1270:2-4: ERROR: test of a variable/field address
>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics