The irq loop: do { iir = serial_in(up, UART_IIR); if (iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT) break; ... } while (!(iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT) && max_count--); After the if statement the variable iir is guaranteed to not have the UART_IIR_NO_INT bit set and the remaining body of the loop doesn't re-read iir so the check in the while is redundant. Martin Townsend (1): omap_serial: Removing superfluous check on no interrupt pending. drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html