The Coveity checker found that residue is always 0. Is this patch correct or should residue have been used? Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm1-full/drivers/net/ns83820.c.old 2005-03-22 21:32:15.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm1-full/drivers/net/ns83820.c 2005-03-22 21:33:16.000000000 +0100 @@ -1189,7 +1189,6 @@ for (;;) { volatile u32 *desc = dev->tx_descs + (free_idx * DESC_SIZE); - u32 residue = 0; dprintk("frag[%3u]: %4u @ 0x%08Lx\n", free_idx, len, (unsigned long long)buf); @@ -1199,17 +1198,11 @@ desc_addr_set(desc + DESC_BUFPTR, buf); desc[DESC_EXTSTS] = cpu_to_le32(extsts); - cmdsts = ((nr_frags|residue) ? CMDSTS_MORE : do_intr ? CMDSTS_INTR : 0); + cmdsts = ((nr_frags) ? CMDSTS_MORE : do_intr ? CMDSTS_INTR : 0); cmdsts |= (desc == first_desc) ? 0 : CMDSTS_OWN; cmdsts |= len; desc[DESC_CMDSTS] = cpu_to_le32(cmdsts); - if (residue) { - buf += len; - len = residue; - continue; - } - if (!nr_frags) break; - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html