netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] yellowfin: fix remove set but not used variable warning

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Date:   Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:34:04 +0800
From:   YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     <yang.wei9@....com.cn>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] yellowfin: fix remove set but not used variable
 warning

On 2019/2/19 4:13, David Miller wrote:
> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:15:46 +0000
> 
>> @@ -1050,8 +1050,11 @@ static int yellowfin_rx(struct net_device *dev)
>>  		struct sk_buff *rx_skb = yp->rx_skbuff[entry];
>>  		s16 frame_status;
>>  		u16 desc_status;
>> -		int data_size, yf_size;
>> +		int data_size;
>>  		u8 *buf_addr;
>> +#ifdef YF_PROTOTYPE
>> +		int yf_size = sizeof(struct yellowfin_desc);
>> +#endif
> 
> This is just silly.
> 
> Please move this variable declaration and initialization into the
> YF_PROTOTYPE basic block in the code below it, like this:
> 
> #ifdef YF_PROTOTYPE		/* Support for prototype hardware errata. */
> 		} else if ((yp->flags & HasMACAddrBug)  &&
> 			int yf_size = sizeof(struct yellowfin_desc);

There's just in if condition, define the 'yf_size' seems incorrect

maybe we can remove 'yf_size' and use sizeof directly?

> 
> 			!ether_addr_equal(le32_to_cpu(yp->rx_ring_dma +
> 						      entry * yf_size),
> 					  dev->dev_addr) &&
> 			!ether_addr_equal(le32_to_cpu(yp->rx_ring_dma +
> 						      entry * yf_size),
> 					  "\377\377\377\377\377\377")) {
> 			if (bogus_rx++ == 0)
> 				netdev_warn(dev, "Bad frame to %pM\n",
> 					    buf_addr);
> #endif
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> .
>