linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging:xgifb:remove unused code

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Message-ID: <20160823080700.GA9280@sudip-laptop>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:37:00 +0530
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     dingxiang <dingxiang@...wei.com>
Cc:     arnaud.patard@...-net.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging:xgifb:remove unused code

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 03:26:50PM +0800, dingxiang wrote:
> The variable data is assigned but never used in rest code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@...wei.com>
> ---

Your name in Signed-off-by: and From: doesnot match.

>  drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c b/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c
> index 50c8ea4..71bb9ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c
> @@ -727,7 +727,6 @@ static void XGI_SetCRT1DE(unsigned short ModeIdIndex,
>  		tempax |= 0x40;
>  	xgifb_reg_and_or(pVBInfo->P3d4, 0x07, ~0x42, tempax);
> -	data = xgifb_reg_get(pVBInfo->P3d4, 0x07);
>  	tempax = 0;
>  	if (tempbx & 0x04)

The patch will not apply. Its missing two blank lines which the original
code has.

regards
sudip