linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] btrfs: remove the useless value assignment in btrfs_defrag

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Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:13:38 +0100
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     xiakaixu1987@...il.com
Cc:     clm@...com, josef@...icpanda.com, dsterba@...e.com,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: remove the useless value assignment in
 btrfs_defrag_file

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 05:06:21PM +0800, xiakaixu1987@...il.com wrote:
> From: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
> 
> The variable ret is overwritten by the following variable defrag_count
> and this assignment is useless, so remove it.

This could be actually pointing to a bug, please explain why you think
it's correct to remove it and not to return EAGAIN.