linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] EDAC, sb_edac: remove redundant update of tad

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Message-ID: <20190509141313.GA17053@zn.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 9 May 2019 16:13:13 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC, sb_edac: remove redundant update of tad_base

On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:42:01PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The variable tad_base is being set to a value that is never read
> and is being over-written on the next iteration of a for-loop.
> This assignment is therefore redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")

What's that tag's function supposed to be?

I see a lot of those in commit messages but it is nowhere documented in
the tree.

$ git grep -i coverity

doesn't give anything relevant.

Hmm?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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