linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [media] dvb-frontends: remove self assignments

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Date:   Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:02:17 -0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Hans Verkuil <hansverk@...co.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] dvb-frontends: remove self assignments

Em Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:14:50 -0800
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> escreveu:

> These were leftover from:
> commit 469ffe083665 ("[media] tda18271c2dd: Remove the CHK_ERROR macro")
> and
> commit 58d5eaec9f87 ("[media] drxd: Don't use a macro for CHK_ERROR ...")
> that programmatically removed the CHK_ERROR macro, which left behind a
> few self assignments that Clang warns about.  These instances aren't
> errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

Thanks for the patch, but a similar one was already merged:

commit 2ddc125de832f4d8e1820dc923cb2029170beea0
Author: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 23 05:19:19 2017 -0500

    media: dvb_frontend: remove redundant status self assignment
    
    The assignment status to itself is redundant and can be removed.
    Detected with Coccinelle.
    
    Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
    Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>


> ---
>  drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drxd_hard.c    | 3 ---
>  drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda18271c2dd.c | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drxd_hard.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drxd_hard.c
> index 0696bc62dcc9..ff18a0f7dc41 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drxd_hard.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drxd_hard.c
> @@ -2140,7 +2140,6 @@ static int DRX_Start(struct drxd_state *state, s32 off)
>  			}
>  			break;
>  		}
> -		status = status;
>  		if (status < 0)
>  			break;
>  
> @@ -2251,7 +2250,6 @@ static int DRX_Start(struct drxd_state *state, s32 off)
>  			break;
>  
>  		}
> -		status = status;
>  		if (status < 0)
>  			break;
>  
> @@ -2318,7 +2316,6 @@ static int DRX_Start(struct drxd_state *state, s32 off)
>  			}
>  			break;
>  		}
> -		status = status;
>  		if (status < 0)
>  			break;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda18271c2dd.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda18271c2dd.c
> index 2d2778be2d2f..45cd5ba0cf8a 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda18271c2dd.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda18271c2dd.c
> @@ -674,7 +674,6 @@ static int PowerScan(struct tda_state *state,
>  			Count = 200000;
>  			wait = true;
>  		}
> -		status = status;
>  		if (status < 0)
>  			break;
>  		if (CID_Gain >= CID_Target) {



Thanks,
Mauro