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

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:32:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com, linux-wimax@...el.com,
        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

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:07:11 +0100

> 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>
> ---
> 
> V2: completely remove debug, clean up checkpatch warning, change subject line

Applied to net-next, thanks Colin.