[RFC PATCH 06/11] ppc: checking for pdn->parent is redundant

Nishanth Aravamudan nacc at us.ibm.com
Sat Oct 9 04:33:07 EST 2010


The device tree root is never a pci bus, and will not have a
PCI_DN(pdn), so the check for PCI_DN added in
650f7b3b2f0ead0673e90452cf3dedde97c537ba makes the check for pdn->parent
redundant and it can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm at bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc at us.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
index 8ab32da..0ae5a60 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
@@ -530,10 +530,7 @@ static void pci_dma_dev_setup_pSeriesLP(struct pci_dev *dev)
 	}
 	pr_debug("  parent is %s\n", pdn->full_name);
 
-	/* Check for parent == NULL so we don't try to setup the empty EADS
-	 * slots on POWER4 machines.
-	 */
-	if (dma_window == NULL || pdn->parent == NULL) {
+	if (dma_window == NULL) {
 		pr_debug("  no dma window for device, linking to parent\n");
 		set_iommu_table_base(&dev->dev, PCI_DN(pdn)->iommu_table);
 		return;
-- 
1.7.1



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