linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/7] tty/vt: consolemap: remove dflt reset from con_do_clear

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Message-Id: <20220614075713.32767-7-jslaby@suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:57:13 +0200
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] tty/vt: consolemap: remove dflt reset from con_do_clear_unimap()

con_do_clear_unimap() sets dflt to NULL and then calls
con_release_unimap() which does the very same as the first thing. So
remove the former as it is apparently superfluous.

Suggested-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
index 9e94ec0e0f83..5f3e58165b98 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
@@ -563,8 +563,6 @@ static int con_do_clear_unimap(struct vc_data *vc)
 	if (!old || old->refcount > 1)
 		return con_allocate_new(vc);
 
-	if (old == dflt)
-		dflt = NULL;
 	old->sum = 0;
 	con_release_unimap(old);
 
-- 
2.36.1