linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] net: ethernet: slicoss: remove redundant increment of pointer data

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:16:30 +0200
From:   Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] net: ethernet: slicoss: remove redundant increment
 of pointer data

Hi,

On 26.07.23 18:45, Colin Ian King wrote:
> The pointer data is being incremented but this change to the pointer
> is not used afterwards. The increment is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
> index a30d0f172986..78231c85234d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
> @@ -1520,10 +1520,8 @@ static void slic_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev,
>
>  static void slic_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, u32 stringset, u8 *data)
>  {
> -	if (stringset == ETH_SS_STATS) {
> +	if (stringset == ETH_SS_STATS)
>  		memcpy(data, slic_stats_strings, sizeof(slic_stats_strings));
> -		data += sizeof(slic_stats_strings);
> -	}
>  }
>
>  static void slic_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev,

FWIW
Acked-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>

Best Regards,
Lino