On 06/22/2011 07:47 PM, Feng Tang wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:00:13 +0800
> "[email protected]"<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> From: Dirk Brandewie<[email protected]>
>>
>> The value of spi->bits_per_word is checked on function entry to be 8
>> or 16.  The else clause has no meaning since it can never be reached.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie<[email protected]>
>> ---
>>   drivers/spi/spi-dw.c |    9 +++------
>>   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
>> index 7b3f607..5ddd45f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
>> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.c
>> @@ -667,17 +667,14 @@ static int spi_dw_setup(struct spi_device *spi)
>>              chip->enable_dma = chip_info->enable_dma;
>>      }
>>
>> -    if (spi->bits_per_word<= 8) {
>> +    if (spi->bits_per_word == 8) {
>>              chip->n_bytes = 1;
>>              chip->dma_width = 1;
>> -    } else if (spi->bits_per_word<= 16) {
>> +    } else if (spi->bits_per_word == 16) {
>>              chip->n_bytes = 2;
>>              chip->dma_width = 2;
>> -    } else {
>> -            /* Never take>16b case for DW SPIC */
>> -            dev_err(&spi->dev, "invalid wordsize\n");
>> -            return -EINVAL;
>>      }
>
> These "else" case is used to ban the slave spi devices which
> try to use 32 bits per word mode. This is like to tell those
> spi devices with 32 bpw capability "we don't support 32b, pls
> change"

The function has the prerequisite code:
        if (spi->bits_per_word != 8 && spi->bits_per_word != 16)
                return -EINVAL;

at the begining of the function so we will never be able to reach the else 
clause that is being removed.

>
>> +
>>      chip->bits_per_word = spi->bits_per_word;
>>
>>      chip->speed_hz = spi->max_speed_hz;


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