Am Freitag, den 26.10.2012, 09:46 +0800 schrieb Yuanhan Liu: > From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan....@linux.intel.com> > > Firstly, this kind of type check doesn't work. It does something similay > like following: > void * __dummy = NULL; > __buf = __dummy; > > __dummy is defined as void *. Thus it will not trigger warnings as > expected. > > Second, we don't need that kind of check. Since the prototype > of __kfifo_out is: > unsigned int __kfifo_out(struct __kfifo *fifo, void *buf, unsigned int > len) > > buf is defined as void *, so we don't need do the type check. Remove it. > > LINK: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/25/386 > LINK: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/25/584 > > Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Wei Yang <weiy...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Cc: Stefani Seibold <stef...@seibold.net> > Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com> > Cc: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan....@linux.intel.com> > --- > include/linux/kfifo.h | 20 -------------------- > 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/kfifo.h b/include/linux/kfifo.h > index 10308c6..b8c1d03 100644 > --- a/include/linux/kfifo.h > +++ b/include/linux/kfifo.h > @@ -390,10 +390,6 @@ __kfifo_int_must_check_helper( \ > unsigned int __ret; \ > const size_t __recsize = sizeof(*__tmp->rectype); \ > struct __kfifo *__kfifo = &__tmp->kfifo; \ > - if (0) { \ > - typeof(__tmp->ptr_const) __dummy __attribute__ ((unused)); \ > - __dummy = (typeof(__val))NULL; \ > - } \ > if (__recsize) \ > __ret = __kfifo_in_r(__kfifo, __val, sizeof(*__val), \ > __recsize); \ > @@ -432,8 +428,6 @@ __kfifo_uint_must_check_helper( \ > unsigned int __ret; \ > const size_t __recsize = sizeof(*__tmp->rectype); \ > struct __kfifo *__kfifo = &__tmp->kfifo; \ > - if (0) \ > - __val = (typeof(__tmp->ptr))0; \ > if (__recsize) \ > __ret = __kfifo_out_r(__kfifo, __val, sizeof(*__val), \ > __recsize); \ > @@ -473,8 +467,6 @@ __kfifo_uint_must_check_helper( \ > unsigned int __ret; \ > const size_t __recsize = sizeof(*__tmp->rectype); \ > struct __kfifo *__kfifo = &__tmp->kfifo; \ > - if (0) \ > - __val = (typeof(__tmp->ptr))NULL; \ > if (__recsize) \ > __ret = __kfifo_out_peek_r(__kfifo, __val, sizeof(*__val), \ > __recsize); \ > @@ -512,10 +504,6 @@ __kfifo_uint_must_check_helper( \ > unsigned long __n = (n); \ > const size_t __recsize = sizeof(*__tmp->rectype); \ > struct __kfifo *__kfifo = &__tmp->kfifo; \ > - if (0) { \ > - typeof(__tmp->ptr_const) __dummy __attribute__ ((unused)); \ > - __dummy = (typeof(__buf))NULL; \ > - } \ > (__recsize) ?\ > __kfifo_in_r(__kfifo, __buf, __n, __recsize) : \ > __kfifo_in(__kfifo, __buf, __n); \ > @@ -565,10 +553,6 @@ __kfifo_uint_must_check_helper( \ > unsigned long __n = (n); \ > const size_t __recsize = sizeof(*__tmp->rectype); \ > struct __kfifo *__kfifo = &__tmp->kfifo; \ > - if (0) { \ > - typeof(__tmp->ptr) __dummy = NULL; \ > - __buf = __dummy; \ > - } \ > (__recsize) ?\ > __kfifo_out_r(__kfifo, __buf, __n, __recsize) : \ > __kfifo_out(__kfifo, __buf, __n); \ > @@ -777,10 +761,6 @@ __kfifo_uint_must_check_helper( \ > unsigned long __n = (n); \ > const size_t __recsize = sizeof(*__tmp->rectype); \ > struct __kfifo *__kfifo = &__tmp->kfifo; \ > - if (0) { \ > - typeof(__tmp->ptr) __dummy __attribute__ ((unused)) = NULL; \ > - __buf = __dummy; \ > - } \ > (__recsize) ? \ > __kfifo_out_peek_r(__kfifo, __buf, __n, __recsize) : \ > __kfifo_out_peek(__kfifo, __buf, __n); \
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