Re: [PATCH v2] staging: wilc1000: remove unwanted assignment

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On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 12:01:14PM +0000, Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 02:47:24PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:37:11AM +0000, Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) wrote:
> > > >From : Hari Prasath Gujulan Elango <hgujulan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > remove unwanted assignment to ih->check here as it will be
> > > overwritten.Its not used in the ip_fast_csum() function as well.
> > 
> > This code is hard for me to follow.  How do you know it's not used in
> > ip_fast_csum()?
> > 
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> > 
> 
> Dan,this function to calculate the checksum of a IP header is defined 
> in the kernel source at lib/checksum.c.

Yes.  I know that.

> This particular member is not
> used in the function.

Because it treats the whole struct as a char buffer.

> I referred other drivers under drivers/net.It seems
> that this assignment is not required before calling the function
> ip_fast_csum().

I was really hoping you were going to make this simpler for me to review
this patch but this information is very vague.

regards,
dan carpenter

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