Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: remove redundant check

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 01:42:17PM +0200, José Pekkarinen wrote:
> On 2023-10-31 07:48, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 07:17:48PM +0200, José Pekkarinen wrote:
> > > This patch addresses the following warning spotted by
> > > using coccinelle where the case checked does the same
> > > than the else case.
> > > 
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/dcn32/display_mode_vba_util_32.c:4664:8-10:
> > > WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 974ce181 ("drm/amd/display: Add check for PState change in
> > > DCN32")
> > > 
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > Why is this relevant for stable?
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I was asked to send it for stable because this code
> looks different in amd-staging-drm-next, see here.
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/blob/amd-staging-drm-next/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/dcn32/display_mode_vba_util_32.c#L4661

I don't know what I am looking at, sorry.

>     Feel free to let me know if this is wrong, or if I
> need to review some other guidelines I may have missed.

Please see the list of rules for stable patches:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html

Does "remove code that does nothing" fit here?

thanks,

greg k-h



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