Re: Patch "iommu/arm-smmu: Drop if with an always false condition" has been added to the 6.3-stable tree

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Hello,

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:49:37PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     iommu/arm-smmu: Drop if with an always false condition
> 
> to the 6.3-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      iommu-arm-smmu-drop-if-with-an-always-false-conditio.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.

I'd not add that patch to stable. It's just about dropping an

	if (false) {
		something();
	}

The compiler probably isn't able to see that the condition is always
false, so the only benefit is that the patch makes the compiled code a
bit smaller.

Best regards
Uwe

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |

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