Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: iuu_phoenix: remove redundant assignment of DIV to itself

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 08:06:25 EST


On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 09:15:27PM +0100, walter harms wrote:
> Am 20.11.2017 18:40, schrieb Colin King:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The assignment of DIV to itself is redundant and can be removed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/usb/serial/iuu_phoenix.c | 1 -
> > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/iuu_phoenix.c b/drivers/usb/serial/iuu_phoenix.c
> > index 397a8012ffa3..62c91e360baf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/serial/iuu_phoenix.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/iuu_phoenix.c
> > @@ -472,7 +472,6 @@ static int iuu_clk(struct usb_serial_port *port, int dwFrq)
> > }
> > }
> > P2 = ((P - PO) / 2) - 4;
> > - DIV = DIV;
> > PUMP = 0x04;
> > PBmsb = (P2 >> 8 & 0x03);
> > PBlsb = P2 & 0xFF;
>
> These all all-upper-case stuff makes me a bit nervous. Normally this
> is reserved for #define ( I assume that the programmer refers to
> the original documentation) a point to change ?

Yeah, this isn't pretty and appears to have been copied directly from
the iuutool userspace tool (mentioned in the header).

> btw: i noticed int frq = (int)dwFrq;
> since dwFrq is already an in, the cast is useless.

Indeed. Also present in original code.

This driver went in marked as "experimental", but the dependency on
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL was later dropped. These days something like this
would have need to be cleaned up (e.g. in staging) before getting
merged.

Johan