linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove untouched code in kfifo

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Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:00:26 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
Cc:	Richard Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove untouched code in kfifo_in

On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Stefani Seibold wrote:

> > >This was introduce by me to suppress a compiler warning, so don't remove
> > >it. 
> > Which warning? I compile by removing this, but not find warning.
> > I compile it on x86_64 platform.
> > >
> 
> Sorry, i can't remember, it is three years and two gcc major releases
> ago.

Well, exactly. gcc that needs this workaround seems to be pretty broken, 
and I am not seeing any warnings either myself.

As it's quite a obscure and confusing construction, I'd not hesitate 
removing that.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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