Re: [PATCH] rivafb: dubious assignment

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Oct 22 2010 - 10:47:11 EST


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 13:31, Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A duplicated assignment unconditionally changes max_gfsize to
> GFIFO_SIZE.
>
> It looks to me like this might not be intended, or is it?
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âdrivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c | Â Â1 -
> Â1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c b/drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c
> index 78fdbf5..936abfa 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c
> @@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ static int nv3_iterate(nv3_fifo_info *res_info, nv3_sim_state * state, nv3_arb_i
> Â Â vmisses = 2;
> Â Â if (ainfo->gburst_size == 128) max_gfsize = GFIFO_SIZE_128;
> Â Â else Âmax_gfsize = GFIFO_SIZE;
> - Â Âmax_gfsize = GFIFO_SIZE;
> Â Â while (1)
> Â Â {
> Â Â Â Â if (ainfo->vid_en)
> --
> 1.7.2.2

According to full-history-linux, this comes from the initial drop in 2.3.49pre2,
from nVidia code(?), imported by Jeff Garzik.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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