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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] xfs: remove redundant assignment to variable error
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
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Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 10:53:20 -0600
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On 11/6/19 10:33 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 06/11/2019 16:19, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/6/19 9:59 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
>>> On 06/11/2019 15:56, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 03:52:48PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
>>>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Variable error is being initialized with a value that is never read
>>>>> and is being re-assigned a couple of statements later on. The
>>>>> assignment is redundant and hence can be removed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
>>>>
>>>> Er... is there a coverity id that goes with this?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately it is a private one, so it does not make sense to use it.
>>
>> If it's not in the upstream coverity scan (and AFAICT it's not),
> 
> that's because I'm using coverity with improved tuned coverage settings
> and coverity scan is just set on the default low setting.
> 
>> it makes no sense to reference coverity in the commit log.
>> It's not useful to anyone IMHO.
> 
> It's useful for tracking which bugs are being picked up with Coverity
> and the kind of bug issue. I'm trying to gather stats on static analysis
> fixes that land in linux to help catagorize the types of issues with
> fixes landing upstream.

The commit log is public.

The way you've tagged the commit really makes no sense to anyone outside
of your org.

Maybe:

Reported-by: Internal Coverity instance

or something would make more sense to the general public?

-Eric