Hi, On 5/12/21 10:57 AM, Yang Li wrote: > Making '==' operation with ESM_STATUS_CMD_UNSUCCESSFUL directly > after calling the function inb() is more efficient, so assignment > to 'cmd_status' is redundant. > > Eliminate the following clang_analyzer warning: > drivers/platform/x86/dell/dcdbas.c:397:11: warning: Although the value > stored to 'cmd_status' is used in the enclosing expression, the value > is never actually read from 'cmd_status' > > No functional change. > > Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thank you for your patch, I've applied this patch to my review-hans branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=review-hans Note it will show up in my review-hans branch once I've pushed my local branch there, which might take a while. Once I've run some tests on this branch the patches there will be added to the platform-drivers-x86/for-next branch and eventually will be included in the pdx86 pull-request to Linus for the next merge-window. Regards, Hans > --- > > Change in v2 > --According to Hans's suggestion, store the inb() value into the s8. > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1419026/ > > drivers/platform/x86/dell/dcdbas.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dcdbas.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dcdbas.c > index d513a59..28447c1 100644 > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dcdbas.c > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dcdbas.c > @@ -394,8 +394,7 @@ static int host_control_smi(void) > > /* wait a few to see if it executed */ > num_ticks = TIMEOUT_USEC_SHORT_SEMA_BLOCKING; > - while ((cmd_status = inb(PCAT_APM_STATUS_PORT)) > - == ESM_STATUS_CMD_UNSUCCESSFUL) { > + while ((s8)inb(PCAT_APM_STATUS_PORT) == ESM_STATUS_CMD_UNSUCCESSFUL) { > num_ticks--; > if (num_ticks == EXPIRED_TIMER) > return -ETIME; >