Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751854AbbFMVsJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jun 2015 17:48:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33957 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751150AbbFMVsD (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jun 2015 17:48:03 -0400 From: Jes Sorensen To: Nicholas Mc Guire Cc: Larry Finger , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Roberta Dobrescu , Joe Perches , Daniele Alessandrelli , Aleh Suprunovich , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG ?] staging: rtl8723au: condition with no effect References: <1434191497-5611-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 17:48:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1434191497-5611-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org> (Nicholas Mc Guire's message of "Sat, 13 Jun 2015 12:31:37 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1471 Lines: 34 Nicholas Mc Guire writes: > scanning for trivial bug-patters with coccinelle spatches returned: > ./drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c:1395 > WARNING: condition with no effect (if branch == else) > > drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c - line numbers from 4.1-rc7 > 1395 if (bWithoutHWSM) { > 1396 /* value16 |= (APDM_HOST | FSM_HSUS |/PFM_ALDN); */ > 1397 /* 2010/08/31 According to Filen description, we need to > 1398 use HW to shut down 8051 automatically. */ > 1399 /* Because suspend operation need the asistance of 8051 > 1400 to wait for 3ms. */ > 1401 value16 = APDM_HOST | AFSM_HSUS | PFM_ALDN; > 1402 } else { > 1403 value16 = APDM_HOST | AFSM_HSUS | PFM_ALDN; > 1404 } > 1405 > 1406 rtl8723au_write16(padapter, REG_APS_FSMCO, value16); /* 0x4802 */ > > Not clear what the intent is but this looks like a typo/bug in the assigment > of value16 as the condition here has no effect. Doesn't look like a typo, looks like someone at some point had commented out PFM_ALDN in the bWithoutHWSM case. Why they did that and then later overrode it, I have no idea. Jes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/