Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: ptdma: Remove dead code from pt_dmaengine_register()

[Basavaraj Natikar]

On 4/11/2025 10:24 PM, Eder Zulian wrote:
> devm_kasprintf() is used to allocate and format a string and the
> returned pointer is assigned to 'cmd_cache_name'. However, the variable
> 'cmd_cache_name' is not effectively used.
>
> Remove the dead code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eder Zulian <ezulian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c | 7 -------
>   1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
> index 715ac3ae067b..3a8014fb9cb4 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
> @@ -565,7 +565,6 @@ int pt_dmaengine_register(struct pt_device *pt)
>   	struct ae4_device *ae4 = NULL;
>   	struct pt_dma_chan *chan;
>   	char *desc_cache_name;
> -	char *cmd_cache_name;
>   	int ret, i;
>   
>   	if (pt->ver == AE4_DMA_VERSION)
> @@ -581,12 +580,6 @@ int pt_dmaengine_register(struct pt_device *pt)
>   	if (!pt->pt_dma_chan)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>   
> -	cmd_cache_name = devm_kasprintf(pt->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
> -					"%s-dmaengine-cmd-cache",
> -					dev_name(pt->dev));
> -	if (!cmd_cache_name)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -
>   	desc_cache_name = devm_kasprintf(pt->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
>   					 "%s-dmaengine-desc-cache",
>   					 dev_name(pt->dev));

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Basavaraj Natikar<Basavaraj.Natikar@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,
--
Basavaraj