From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755458Ab0ARDbc (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:31:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755356Ab0ARDbb (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:31:31 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41979 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755039Ab0ARDba (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:31:30 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:31:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100117.193140.153138395.davem@davemloft.net> To: julia@diku.dk Cc: ron.mercer@qlogic.com, linux-driver@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] drivers/net: Eliminate useless code From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:57:56 +0100 (CET) > The variable qdev is initialized twice to the same (side effect-free) > expression. Drop one initialization. > > A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @forall@ > idexpression *x; > identifier f!=ERR_PTR; > @@ > > x = f(...) > ... when != x > ( > x = f(...,<+...x...+>,...) > | > * x = f(...) > ) > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Something in your patch creation process is corrupting these patches. > diff --git a/drivers/net/qla3xxx.c b/drivers/net/qla3xxx.c > index f922294..4ef0afb 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/qla3xxx.c > +++ b/drivers/net/qla3xxx.c > @@ -4087,9 +4087,8 @@ static void __devexit ql3xxx_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) > struct ql3_adapter *qdev = netdev_priv(ndev); > > unregister_netdev(ndev); > - qdev = netdev_priv(ndev); > > ql_disable_interrupts(qdev); > > -- That hunk header states that after the line is removed there should be 8 lines present in the hunk, but the patch only shows 7 such lines. I suspect something is eating the final line of your patches.