Subject: [PATCH 6/7] S3C64XX DMA: dbg_showbuffs cleanup

From: [email-masked] (Ben Dooks)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:44:32 +0100

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:01:24PM +0900, Jassi wrote:
> Removed unused variable and cleaned up.
> 
> Signed-Off-by: Jassi <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/arm/plat-s3c64xx/dma.c |   14 ++++----------
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-s3c64xx/dma.c b/arch/arm/plat-s3c64xx/dma.c
> index e68469d..727072b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/plat-s3c64xx/dma.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-s3c64xx/dma.c
> @@ -71,20 +71,14 @@ static void show_lli(struct pl080s_lli *lli)
>  static void dbg_showbuffs(struct s3c2410_dma_chan *chan)
>  {
>  	struct s3c64xx_dma_buff *ptr;
> -	struct s3c64xx_dma_buff *end;

you are right that the end is not used.
  
>  	pr_debug("DMA%d: buffs next %p, curr %p, end %p\n",
>  		 chan->number, chan->next, chan->curr, chan->end);
>  
> -	ptr = chan->next;
> -	end = chan->end;
> -
> -	if (debug_show_buffs) {
> -		for (; ptr != NULL; ptr = ptr->next) {
> -			pr_debug("DMA%d: %08x ",
> -				 chan->number, ptr->lli_dma);
> -			show_lli(ptr->lli);
> -		}
> +	for (ptr = chan->curr; debug_show_buffs && ptr != NULL; ptr = ptr->next) {

this isn't a very nice change, for a start this means debug_show_buffs
is going to end up being evaluated each loop and secondly these sort of
changes do not help the code readability and can introduce bugs of their
own.

> +		pr_debug("DMA%d: %08x \n",
> +			 chan->number, ptr->lli_dma);
> +		show_lli(ptr->lli);
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.6.2.5

-- 
Ben

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