linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtl8xxxu: remove the unused variable timeout value assignment

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Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:56:01 -0500
From:   Jes Sorensen <jes.sorensen@...il.com>
To:     xiakaixu1987@...il.com, kvalo@...eaurora.org, chiu@...lessm.com
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8xxxu: remove the unused variable timeout value
 assignment

On 11/13/20 4:50 AM, xiakaixu1987@...il.com wrote:
> From: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
> 
> The value of variable timeout is overwritten by the following statement in
> rtl8xxxu_gen1_init_aggregation(), so here the value assignment is useless.
> Remove it.
> 
> Reported-by: Tosk Robot <tencent_os_robot@...cent.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
> index 5cd7ef3..342126b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
> @@ -4426,7 +4426,7 @@ void rtl8xxxu_gen1_init_aggregation(struct rtl8xxxu_priv *priv)
>  	page_thresh = (priv->fops->rx_agg_buf_size / 512);
>  	if (rtl8xxxu_dma_agg_pages >= 0) {
>  		if (rtl8xxxu_dma_agg_pages <= page_thresh)
> -			timeout = page_thresh;
> +			; /* do nothing */

Sorry this is the wrong way to do this. If the if statement is no longer
needed, then remove it, don't just make it do nothing.

Nack

Jes