netdev - Re: [PATCH][V2] wimax/i2400m: remove debug containing bogus calculation of index

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:40:29 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com>,
        linux-wimax@...el.com, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][V2] wimax/i2400m: remove debug containing bogus
 calculation of index

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:07:11AM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The subtraction of the two pointers is automatically scaled by the
> size of the size of the object the pointers point to, so the division
> by sizeof(*i2400m->barker) is incorrect.  This has been broken since
> day one of the driver and is only debug, so remove the debug completely.
> 
> Also move && in condition to clean up a checkpatch warning.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Extra sizeof expression")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

regards,
dan carpenter