Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] nsp32_restart_autoscsi(): remove error check

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 - 13:02:40 EST


On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:41:12PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 18:25 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The Coverity checker noted that we'll anyway Oops later when we ran into
> > this condition - and the error check didn't prevent that.
> >
> > Considering that the error condition shouldn't be possible, and we are
> > not able to handle it easily, this patch simply removes the pointless
> > error check.
>
> This is the one where I said I don't like the fact that you're removing
> the explanatory message that's printed before we crash. if you want to
> shut coverity up and stop sending the patch, I'm happy adding a BUG();
> after the nsp32_msg().

Sorry, I missed your answer when resending since it was in a different
thread.

I'm still not convinced we really need the nsp32_msg() here but you are
the maintainer and it's not a big deal anyway

A BUG() would IMHO be similarly pointless as the nsp32_msg() at this
point and there's no value in changing code only for the sake of the
Coverity checker.

> James

cu
Adrian

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