Hi, On Monday 03 March 2008, Peter Teoh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The Coverity checker spotted the following bogus change to > > ide_register_hw() in commit 9e016a719209d95338e314b46c3012cc7feaaeec: > > > > <-- snip --> > > > > ... > > + hwif = ide_deprecated_find_port(hw->io_ports[IDE_DATA_OFFSET]); > > + index = hwif->index; > > + if (hwif) > > + goto found; > > for (index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) > > ... > > > > <-- snip --> > > > > It's impossible to reach the for() loop without Oopsing before. [ iff free hwif is not found (unlikely case) ] > > Can you either fix this for 2.6.25 or push your patch that removes > > ide_register_hw() for 2.6.25? > > > > My question is: > > a. why is "retry=1", and then the do while loop always end up the > loop being one round executed only? Why not just remove the while > loop entirely? the whole ide_register_hw() is already gone in IDE tree (these patches are scheduled for 2.6.26) > b. not sure if your statement above implied this, but checking for > hwif!=0 should be before index. ??? > > c. "index = hwif->index;" should not be there, but after "found". > Is that correct? Yes, could you please re-do your patch to contain: - only 'hwif->index' change - proper patch description - Signed-off-by: line so I could merge it? Thanks, Bart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html