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Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:01:53 +0000
From:	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: dt2814: Removed variables that
 is never used

On 29/01/15 12:52, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 28/01/15 22:33, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
>> Variable ar assigned a value that is never used.
>> I have also removed all the code that thereby serves no purpose.
>>
>> This was found using a static code analysis program called cppcheck
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist
>> <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dt2814.c |   13 ++++---------
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> Good, apart from the bad English!
>
> Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>

On second thoughts, I retract my 'Reviewed-by'. The patch actually 
serves to point out a glaring bug in the original code, in that it 
acquires data in the interrupt routine but just throws it all away!

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