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Message-ID: <53E083B8.4090008@bfs.de>
Date:	Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:11:52 +0200
From:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
To:	Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@...il.com>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c: drop stray break operator



Am 04.08.2014 22:47, schrieb Andrey Utkin:
> This commit is a guesswork, but it seems to make sense to drop this
> break, as otherwise the following line is never executed and becomes
> dead code. And that following line actually saves the result of
> local calculation by the pointer given in function argument. So the
> proposed change makes sense if this code in the whole makes sense (but I
> am unable to analyze it in the whole).
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81641
> Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@...mail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c b/arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c
> index aa4d55b..5ce8f2f 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c
> @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static int do_one_mathemu(u32 insn, unsigned long *pfsr, unsigned long *fregs)
>  		case 0: fsr = *pfsr;
>  			if (IR == -1) IR = 2;
>  			/* fcc is always fcc0 */

The patch looks ok, but can somebody comment on this comment ?
what "fcc" ? should it be a fsr ?


> -			fsr &= ~0xc00; fsr |= (IR << 10); break;
> +			fsr &= ~0xc00; fsr |= (IR << 10);

nitpicking:
   fsr &= ~0xc00;
   fsr |= (IR << 10);

It is better readable.

re,
 wh

>  			*pfsr = fsr;
>  			break;
>  		case 1: rd->s = IR; break;
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