Re: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: clean up assignments to pointer cache.

From: Simon Horman
Date: Mon Feb 19 2024 - 11:08:55 EST


On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 11:21:51PM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The assignment to pointer cache in function mesh_fast_tx_gc can
> be made at the declaration time rather than a later assignment.
> There are also 3 functions where pointer cache is being initialized
> at declaration time and later re-assigned again with the same
> value, these are redundant and can be removed.
>
> Cleans up code and three clang scan build warnings:
> warning: Value stored to 'cache' during its initialization is never
> read [deadcode.DeadStores]
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>

FWIIW, these changes look fine to me although I might have split the
mesh_fast_tx_gc() and mesh_fast_tx_flush_sta() changes into different
patches as they seem to address separate issues.

That notwithstanding,

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>