linux-kernel - Re: drivers: Probable misuses of ||

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Message-ID: <20120504220241.GA6279@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 4 May 2012 23:02:41 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: drivers: Probable misuses of ||

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 02:54:37PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 16:00 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

> > drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/it913x.c:		if (ret == 0 || ret != -EBUSY || ret != -ETIMEDOUT)
> > drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/it913x.c:		if (ret == 0 || ret != -EBUSY || ret != -ETIMEDOUT)
> > drivers/media/rc/fintek-cir.c:	if ((chip != 0x0408) || (chip != 0x0804))

> It's been a month.

> Do you maintainers not care
> about these obvious defects?

It'd probably help if you were to supply more analysis as to what the
issues you think you're seeing are - in the cases quoted above
(especially the last one) there's no obvious bug without further
analysis.
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