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SubjectRe: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] drm: remove unnecessary return variable
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 09:04:31PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2019, Wambui Karuga wrote:
>
> > From: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@gmail.com>
> >
> > Remove unnecessary variable `ret` in drm_dp_atomic_find_vcpi_slots()
> > only used to hold the function return value and have the function
> > return the value directly.
>
> This patch applies for me, but with a huge offset. What tree are you
> using?

For drm patches best practices is to base patches either on linux-next or
the drm-tip tree we have here:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-tip

drm moves quickly, so need to be on top of the latest version.

> Also, Greg won't apply this, because it's not targeting staging. Is this
> for a specific outreachy project?

Yup it's for dri-devel, just applied it.

Thanks for the patch, nice cleanup!

Cheers, Daniel

>
> julia
>
>
> > Issue found by coccinelle:
> > @@
> > local idexpression ret;
> > expression e;
> > @@
> >
> > -ret =
> > +return
> > e;
> > -return ret;
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 5 ++---
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
> > index 9cccc5e63309..b854a422a523 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
> > @@ -3540,7 +3540,7 @@ int drm_dp_atomic_find_vcpi_slots(struct drm_atomic_state *state,
> > {
> > struct drm_dp_mst_topology_state *topology_state;
> > struct drm_dp_vcpi_allocation *pos, *vcpi = NULL;
> > - int prev_slots, req_slots, ret;
> > + int prev_slots, req_slots;
> >
> > topology_state = drm_atomic_get_mst_topology_state(state, mgr);
> > if (IS_ERR(topology_state))
> > @@ -3587,8 +3587,7 @@ int drm_dp_atomic_find_vcpi_slots(struct drm_atomic_state *state,
> > }
> > vcpi->vcpi = req_slots;
> >
> > - ret = req_slots;
> > - return ret;
> > + return req_slots;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_dp_atomic_find_vcpi_slots);
> >
> > --
> > 2.23.0
> >
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch

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