On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 04:04:10AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns about casting variables to themselves because it is rarely
> necessary. Removing the cast should not change anything regarding the
> code and silences the warning.
>
> ../drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c:421:11: warning: explicitly assigning value
> of variable of type 'const struct tegra_xusb_lane_map *' to itself
> [-Wself-assign]
> for (map = map; map->type; map++) {
> ~~~ ^ ~~~
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I am not entirely sure if this is the correct solution, especially since
> I don't have the hardware and I am not too familiar with this code. If
> there is a better solution, please let me know.
>
> Changes from v1 -> v2: Fix spelling error in commit title
>
> drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c b/drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c
> index 63e916d4d069..11aa5902a9ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c
> @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ tegra_xusb_port_find_lane(struct tegra_xusb_port *port,
> {
> struct tegra_xusb_lane *lane, *match = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>
> - for (map = map; map->type; map++) {
> + for (; map->type; map++) {
> if (port->index != map->port)
> continue;
>
An equivalent patch seems to already have been merged. See:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10072641/
You can avoid duplication of effort such as this by basing any patches
you send on top of a recent linux-next. The above patch, for example,
was added in next-20180223.
Thanks,
Thierry
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