20 Dec
2024
20 Dec
'24
7:09 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 11:45:01PM +0100, Ariel Otilibili wrote:
This is a follow up from a discussion in Xen:
The if-statement tests `res` is non-zero; meaning the case zero is never reached.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7587b503-b2ca-4476-8dc9-e9683d4ca5f0@suse.com/ Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Suggested-by: Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ariel Otilibili ariel.otilibili-anieli@eurecom.fr -- Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Why is "removing dead code" a stable kernel thing?
confused,
greg k-h