Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: Remove useless condition

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput]

Hello,

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 04:32:20PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>>
>> if (ret) is useless as it will be never NULL as in previous statement
>> we are setting ret = prev for !ret
>
> If there is no match and no extent below the given file offset, `prev'
> will be NULL as well, no?
>
> So the check is not useless, it prevents throwing out a cached success
> in case of a lookup failure.
>

Got it !!

Thanks,
--
Jaswinder Singh.
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