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Date:   Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:29:04 +0800
From:   Yuehaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
To:     Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Stefan Mavrodiev <stefan@...mex.com>
CC:     Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        "open list:DMA GENERIC OFFLOAD ENGINE SUBSYSTEM" 
        <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] dmaengine: sun4i: remove set but unused variable
 'linear_mode'

On 2020/2/5 12:56, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 12:43 PM YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com> wrote:
>>
>> drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c: In function sun4i_dma_prep_dma_cyclic:
>> drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c:672:24: warning:
>>  variable linear_mode set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>>
>> commit ffc079a4accc ("dmaengine: sun4i: Add support for cyclic requests with dedicated DMA")
>> involved this unused variable.
>>
>> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c | 4 +---
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c b/drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c
>> index bbc2bda..501cd44 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c
>> @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ sun4i_dma_prep_dma_cyclic(struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf, size_t len,
>>         dma_addr_t src, dest;
>>         u32 endpoints;
>>         int nr_periods, offset, plength, i;
>> -       u8 ram_type, io_mode, linear_mode;
>> +       u8 ram_type, io_mode;
>>
>>         if (!is_slave_direction(dir)) {
>>                 dev_err(chan2dev(chan), "Invalid DMA direction\n");
>> @@ -684,11 +684,9 @@ sun4i_dma_prep_dma_cyclic(struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf, size_t len,
>>
>>         if (vchan->is_dedicated) {
>>                 io_mode = SUN4I_DDMA_ADDR_MODE_IO;
>> -               linear_mode = SUN4I_DDMA_ADDR_MODE_LINEAR;
>>                 ram_type = SUN4I_DDMA_DRQ_TYPE_SDRAM;
>>         } else {
>>                 io_mode = SUN4I_NDMA_ADDR_MODE_IO;
>> -               linear_mode = SUN4I_NDMA_ADDR_MODE_LINEAR;
>>                 ram_type = SUN4I_NDMA_DRQ_TYPE_SDRAM;
>>         }
> 
> I think it's better to actually use these values later when composing
> the value for `endpoints`, as we do in sun4i_dma_prep_slave_sg().
> 
> The code currently works because SUN4I_DDMA_ADDR_MODE_LINEAR == 0.
> However explicitly using the value makes the code more readable,
> and doesn't require the reader to have implicit knowledge of default
> values for parameters not specified in the composition of `endpoints`.

Thanks, will send v2.

> 
> ChenYu
> 
> .
>