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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
Cc: Praghadeesh T K S <praghadeeshthevendria@gmail•com>,
	Rain River <rain.1986.08.12@gmail•com>,
	Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@gmail•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	skhan@linuxfoundation•org, praghadeeshtks@zohomail•in,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet/nvidia: fix possible condition with no effect
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 11:38:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220627113812.08ae31f0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yrg+NZHBNcu3KFXn@lunn.ch>

On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:08:37 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 10:35:39AM +0000, Praghadeesh T K S wrote:
> > Fix Coccinelle bug, removed condition with no effect.  
> 
> This is not a coccinelle bug. If it was, you would be patching
> coccinelle, not the kernel.

I'd say the commit message is better than the commit ;)
Praghadeesh, could you fix Coccinelle to avoid matching:

	if (/* case 1 */) {
		/* BLOCK 1*/
	} else (/* case 2 */ {
		/* BLOCK 2 */
	} else {
		/* default == BLOCK 2 */
	}

Because 99% of the time that construct is intentional.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-27 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-26 10:35 [PATCH] net: ethernet/nvidia: fix possible condition with no effect Praghadeesh T K S
2022-06-26 11:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-06-27 18:38   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]

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