Re: unnecessary test?

[Julia Lawall]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Julia Lawall wrote:

> In the file sound/pci/ctxfi/cthw20k1.c, the function daio_mgr_dao_init
> contains:
>
> set_field(&ctl->spoctl, SPOCTL_OS << (idx*8),
>           ((conf >> 3) & 0x1) ? 2 : 2); /* Raw */
>
> Could the second argument just be 2?  It's true that the preceeding call
> contains conf >> ..., but in a more useful way, so perhaps it could be
> useful for uniformity?

There is similar code in daio_mgr_dao_init in sound/pci/ctxfi/cthw20k2.c:

        	set_field(&ctl->txctl[idx], ATXCTL_RAW,
                         ((conf >> 3) & 0x1) ? 0 : 0);


julia