linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] aic7xxx: remove redundant assignment to error

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Date:   Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:05:16 +0200
From:   Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] aic7xxx: remove redundant assignment to error

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:53:27PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> error is initially assigned to ENOENT and a few statements later
> is re-assigned to the error return from the call to ahd_wait_seeprom,
> hence the initial assignment is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
> index 95d8f25cbcca..f5a2714ed82c 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
> @@ -10077,7 +10077,6 @@ ahd_write_seeprom(struct ahd_softc *ahd, uint16_t *buf,
>  	int   retval;
>  
>  	AHD_ASSERT_MODES(ahd, AHD_MODE_SCSI_MSK, AHD_MODE_SCSI_MSK);
> -	error = ENOENT;
>  
>  	/* Place the chip into write-enable mode */
>  	ahd_outb(ahd, SEEADR, SEEOP_EWEN_ADDR);
> -- 

Well,
a) the return value of ahd_write_seeprom() is never checked (the only caller
   is ahd_proc_write_seeprom(),
b) Linux error codes are negative,
c) ahd_write_seeprom() has 'retval' and 'error' for returning error values
   back to the caller (which doesn't care...)

So to sum it up, this change doesn't change anything here. But "fixing" the
list above would make a change.

HTH,
	Johannes

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