On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 05:50:57PM +1000, Jordan Niethe wrote: > > > On 30/6/23 3:56 pm, Gautam Menghani wrote: > > Remove an unnecessary piece of code that does an endianness conversion but > > does not use the result. The following warning was reported by Clang's > > static analyzer: > > > > arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-opal.c:114:2: warning: Value stored to > > 'server' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] > > server = be16_to_cpu(oserver); > > > > As the result of endianness conversion is never used, delete the line > > and fix the warning. > > > > Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gau...@linux.ibm.com> > > 'server' was used as a parameter to opal_get_xive() in commit 5c7c1e9444d8 > ("powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL ICS backend") when it was introduced. 'server' > was also used in an error message for the call to opal_get_xive(). > > 'server' was always later set by a call to ics_opal_mangle_server() before > being used. > > Commit bf8e0f891a32 ("powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in OPAL ICS > backend") used a new variable 'oserver' as the parameter to opal_get_xive() > instead of 'server' for endian correctness. It also removed 'server' from > the error message for the call to opal_get_xive(). > > It was commit bf8e0f891a32 that added the unnecessary conversion and never > used the result. > > Reviewed-by: Jordan Niethe <jniet...@gmail.com> >
Hello Michael, Do you have any more questions on this patch or is it good to go? Thanks, Gautam