linux-kernel - Re: [patch] printk: remove some dead code

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:21:01 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] printk: remove some dead code

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> Static checkers complain about the impossible condition here.
>
> In 084681d14e ('printk: flush continuation lines immediately to
> console'), we changed msg->level from being a u16 to being an unsigned
> 3 bit bitfield.  That means we can remove the code here to handle log
> levels which are in the tens or hundreds column.

We should do that for the facility value, now that level is split up
in separate fields. I'll prepare a fix.

Thanks,
Kay
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