On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 19:40 +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 7:23 PM Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > > > Commit 8410d38c2552 ("loop: use __register_blkdev to allocate devices on > > > demand") simplified loop_init(); so computing the range of the block region > > > is not required anymore and can be dropped. > > > > > > Drop dead assignments in loop_init(). > > > > > > As compilers will detect these unneeded assignments and optimize this, > > > the resulting object code is identical before and after this change. > > > > > > No functional change. No change in object code. > > > > It looks like some braces should be dropped too? > I just rewrote it to: > > nr = max_loop ? max_loop : CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT; A relatively common gcc extension would use ?: like: nr = max_loop ?: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT;