linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the gpio tree with Linus' tree

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Date:	Wed, 28 May 2014 17:34:05 +0200
From:	Michael Stickel <ms@...able.de>
To:	Michael Welling <mwelling@...e.org>
CC:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the gpio tree with Linus' tree

Am 28.05.2014 15:38, schrieb Michael Welling:
> Looking at the Linux next version, I am fairly certian that the following is
> redundant checking:
>                 if (chips < 0) {
>                         dev_err(&spi->dev, "FATAL: invalid negative chip id\n");
>                         goto fail;
>                 }
> 
> The chips variable should equal the number of bits in the spi_present_mask variable.
> Or am I missing something?

Can be left out. Was just a paranoid check, because with the missing
increment in the of path it became negative.


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