linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad

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Message-ID: <20101027035449.GB6062@bicker>
Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:54:49 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@....eng.br>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/14] drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: delete
	double assignment

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:09:08PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> > 
> > Delete successive assignments to the same location.
> 
> There are often results of mismerges or other assorted screw ups, often
> done by the maintainer itself (e.g. me in thinkpad-acpi's case) during
> development.
> 
> The patch is correct, and I thank you for the head's up.  But let me
> track down what caused it first, hmm?  I also highly recommend that this
> should be done in all cases you find, instead of just blindly fixing the
> assignment.

I've reviewed the entire patchset per your suggestion and Julia
obviously didn't do it blindly.  It all looks good.  The patcheset fixes
a number of bugs.

regards,
dan carpenter

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