netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bonding: remove useless assignment

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Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:52:05 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bonding: remove useless assignment

Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 08:19:46PM CEST, nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr wrote:
> The variable old_active is first set to bond->curr_active_slave.
> Then, it is unconditionally set to new_active, without being used in between.
>
> The first assignment, having no side effect, is useless.

Correct.

>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> index a7e731f..fce7233 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static struct slave *bond_find_best_slave(struct bonding *bond)
>         int mintime = bond->params.updelay;
>         int i;
>
> -       new_active = old_active = bond->curr_active_slave;
> +       new_active = bond->curr_active_slave;
>
>         if (!new_active) { /* there were no active slaves left */
>                 if (bond->slave_cnt > 0)   /* found one slave */
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