Re: unnecessary test?

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Wed Jun 06 2018 - 09:04:43 EST


On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:39:05 +0200,
Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> In the file sound/pci/ctxfi/cthw20k1.c, the function daio_mgr_dao_init
> contains:
>
> set_field(&ctl->spoctl, SPOCTL_OS << (idx*8),
> ((conf >> 3) & 0x1) ? 2 : 2); /* Raw */
>
> Could the second argument just be 2? It's true that the preceeding call
> contains conf >> ..., but in a more useful way, so perhaps it could be
> useful for uniformity?

I guess this is a typo of "2 : 0". The code seems toggling the
control bit depending on the S/PDIF passthru mode. It might be
reversed, but I bet 1 for non-audio from a common sense.

Ditto for cthw20k1.c. This one is likely 1, not 2, though.


thanks,

Takashi