netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: ppc: drop if block with always false condition

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Date:   Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:37:07 -0800
From:   Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jim Paris <jim@...n.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Leonard Goehrs <l.goehrs@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: ppc: drop if block with always false condition

Hi Uwe,

On 11/26/20 8:59 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The remove callback is only called for devices that were probed
> successfully before. As the matching probe function cannot complete
> without error if dev->match_id != PS3_MATCH_ID_SOUND, we don't have to
> check this here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

I tested your two patches plus Leonard's patch 'ALSA: ppc: remove
redundant checks in PS3 driver probe' applied to v5.9 on the PS3,
and they seem to work fine.

Thanks for both your efforts.

Tested by: Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>