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

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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2017 08:52:51 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup.patel@...adcom.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 12:12:00PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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.

Yeah that would help, also do the same for static patch you sent on the
driver.
-- 
~Vinod