On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 08:44:44AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:45:32PM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> > Remove the ASSERT and ODM_RT_ASSERT macros from include/odm_debug.h
> > as they are unnecessary.
> >
> > ASSERT does nothing, compiling to a single empty statement.
> > ODM_RT_ASSERT is used in only one place, in the ODM_RAStateCheck
> > function with hal/odm.c - it seems to have been intended as an
> > assertion of some kind, but given it is always called with false
> > here, there is little point in it not just being a pr_info() call.
> >
> > Also, the lines relating to the file, function and line number are
> > not needed as the pr_info() with the function name and error message
> > is sufficient should anyone wish to track down this error at a source
> > level, within what is currently a relatively small function.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/odm.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/odm_debug.h | 13 -------------
> > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/odm.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/odm.c
> > index 4d659a812aed..b800d0c6dff5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/odm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/odm.c
> > @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ bool ODM_RAStateCheck(struct odm_dm_struct *pDM_Odm, s32 RSSI, bool bForceUpdate
> > LowRSSIThreshForRA += GoUpGap;
> > break;
> > default:
> > - ODM_RT_ASSERT(pDM_Odm, false, ("wrong rssi level setting %d !", *pRATRState));
> > + pr_info("%s(): wrong rssi level setting %d!\n", __func__, *pRATRState);
>
> I know you're just copying what the existing code does, but this really
> should just be a dev_err() call instead. It's not "info", and as this
> is a driver, dev_*() should be called instead.
>
> So I'll take this one, but for future cleanups, consider changing the
> pr_*() calls to the correct ones.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Dear Greg,
Thank you for this, I will make sure to bear this in mind for the
future.
Regards,
Phil
