linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: remove redundant null check on req

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Date:   Wed, 17 May 2017 12:12:00 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Anup Patel <anup.patel@...adcom.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
        "dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: remove redundant null check on req

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> Req is never null on at the point of the null check, so
> remove this redundant check and just return &req->tx.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1436147 ("Logically dead code")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Hi Colin,

Looks good, can you also include the driver name in your patch subjects?

For example "dmaengine, bcm-scm-raid: remove redundant null check on
req", would make it clear that this is a driver fix and not a core
dmaengine issue.