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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: driver: Remove condition with no effect
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com>
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From:   Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
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Date:   Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:41:19 +0100
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On 13/07/2020 14:34, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 12:36:28PM +0530, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
>> Remove below warning in das1800.c
>> WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c | 6 ------
>>   1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
>> index f16aa7e9f4f3..7ab72e83d3d0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
>> @@ -1299,12 +1299,6 @@ static int das1800_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,
>>   			outb(DAC(i), dev->iobase + DAS1800_SELECT);
>>   			outw(0, dev->iobase + DAS1800_DAC);
>>   		}
>> -	} else if (board->id == DAS1800_ID_AO) {
>> -		/*
>> -		 * 'ao' boards have waveform analog outputs that are not
>> -		 * currently supported.
>> -		 */
>> -		s->type		= COMEDI_SUBD_UNUSED;
> 
> What gave that warning?  The comment should show you why this is good to
> keep as-is, right?

One option is to move the comment into the '} else {' part that follows 
this part.

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