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| author | Atul Gopinathan <atulgopinathan@gmail.com> | 2021-05-03 13:57:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-05-13 17:33:49 +0200 |
| commit | a28591f61b60fac820c6de59826ffa710e5e314e (patch) | |
| tree | 1b7b53c7309f11fd953ae968330f45f4cf0c6194 | |
| parent | 94f88309f201821073f57ae6005caefa61bf7b7e (diff) | |
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ALSA: sb8: Add a comment note regarding an unused pointer
The field "fm_res" of "struct snd_sb8" is never used/dereferenced
throughout the sb8.c code. Therefore there is no need for any null value
check after the "request_region()".
Add a comment note to make developers know about this and prevent any
"NULL check" patches on this part of code.
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Atul Gopinathan <atulgopinathan@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-36-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c index 95290ffe5c6e..ed3a87ebe3f4 100644 --- a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c +++ b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c @@ -93,7 +93,11 @@ static int snd_sb8_probe(struct device *pdev, unsigned int dev) acard = card->private_data; card->private_free = snd_sb8_free; - /* block the 0x388 port to avoid PnP conflicts */ + /* + * Block the 0x388 port to avoid PnP conflicts. + * No need to check this value after request_region, + * as we never do anything with it. + */ acard->fm_res = request_region(0x388, 4, "SoundBlaster FM"); if (port[dev] != SNDRV_AUTO_PORT) { |