linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: lpfc: remove redundant pointer lp

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Date:   Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:46:56 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     James Smart <james.smart@...adcom.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Cc:     Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@...adcom.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: lpfc: remove redundant pointer lp


Colin,

> Pointer lp is being initialized and incremented but the result
> is never read. The pointer is redundant and can be removed.

> @@ -9173,14 +9173,11 @@ lpfc_els_rcv_farpr(struct lpfc_vport *vport, struct lpfc_iocbq *cmdiocb,
>  		   struct lpfc_nodelist  *ndlp)

Looks like this function has been dubious for a long time. From a quick
glance it doesn't appear to have done anything useful with those
variable assignments since back in the 4.x days.

James, please have a look.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering