Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8723bs: Remove useless led_blink_hdl()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 14 2021 - 13:00:49 EST


On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:26:14PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> Removed useless led_blink_hdl() prototype and definition. In wlancmds[]
> the slot #60 is now set to NULL using the macro GEN_MLME_EXT_HANDLER. This
> change has not unwanted side effects because the code in rtw_cmd.c checks
> if the function pointer is valid before using it.
>
> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1: Corrected a bad solution to this issue that made use of
> an unnecessary dummy function.
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 9 ---------
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_mlme_ext.h | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c
> index 0297fbad7bce..f82dbd4f4c3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static struct cmd_hdl wlancmds[] = {
>
> GEN_MLME_EXT_HANDLER(0, h2c_msg_hdl) /*58*/
> GEN_MLME_EXT_HANDLER(sizeof(struct SetChannelPlan_param), set_chplan_hdl) /*59*/
> - GEN_MLME_EXT_HANDLER(sizeof(struct LedBlink_param), led_blink_hdl) /*60*/
> + GEN_MLME_EXT_HANDLER(0, NULL) /*60*/

Better, but you really do not need to keep this here, right? Remove the
"led blink command" entirely, you didn't do that here.

thanks,

greg k-h