On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:17:38PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
> On 2019/1/23 20:43, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 08:34:42PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
> >> ./drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:972:10-12: WARNING: possible condition with
> >> no effect (if == else)
> >> ./drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:983:9-11: WARNING: possible condition with
> >> no effect (if == else)
> >> ./drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:2052:11-13: WARNING: possible condition
> >> with no effect (if == else)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaib...@huawei.com>
> >
> > You can not just provide the output of a tool as a changelog text,
> > sorry.
> >
> > Please explain what those lines mean, and why you are making the change
> > that you are.
>
> ok, will do that.
>
> >
> >> ---
> >> drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c | 26 --------------------------
> >> 1 file changed, 26 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c b/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c
> >> index 76c718a..257efac 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c
> >> @@ -915,7 +915,6 @@ static int ftdi_elan_respond_engine(struct usb_ftdi
> >> *ftdi)
> >> int bytes_read = 0;
> >> int retry_on_empty = 1;
> >> int retry_on_timeout = 3;
> >> - int empty_packets = 0;
> >> read:{
> >> int packet_bytes = 0;
> >> int retval = usb_bulk_msg(ftdi->udev,
> >> @@ -960,31 +959,6 @@ read:{
> >> dev_err(&ftdi->udev->dev, "error = %d with packet_bytes
> >> = %d with total %d bytes%s\n",
> >> retval, packet_bytes, bytes_read, diag);
> >> return retval;
> >> - } else if (packet_bytes == 2) {
> >> - unsigned char s0 = ftdi->bulk_in_buffer[0];
> >> - unsigned char s1 = ftdi->bulk_in_buffer[1];
> >> - empty_packets += 1;
> >> - if (s0 == 0x31 && s1 == 0x60) {
> >> - if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) {
> >> - goto more;
> >> - } else
> >> - return 0;
> >> - } else if (s0 == 0x31 && s1 == 0x00) {
> >> - if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) {
> >> - goto more;
> >> - } else
> >> - return 0;
> >> - } else {
> >> - if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) {
> >> - goto more;
> >> - } else
> >> - return 0;
> >> - }
> >> - } else if (packet_bytes == 1) {
> >> - if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) {
> >> - goto more;
> >> - } else
> >> - return 0;
> >
> > Are you _sure_ that these lines are not needed and that the compiler is
> > not really seeing them? As it doesn't look that way to me, what am I
> > missing?
>
> I checked and make sure that All these if/else if branch just do the same
> thing:
>
> if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) {
> goto more;
> } else
> return 0;
>
> so it can be merged into the last else branch.
>
> Also the variable 'empty_packets' doesn't use in any place, except for self
> increment
Don't do two different things in the same patch :)
