lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2020]   [Mar]   [22]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: remove unneeded variable: ret
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 02:23:03AM -0700, John B. Wyatt IV wrote:
> Remove unneeded variable ret; replace with 0 for the return value.
>
> Update function documentation (comment) on the return status as
> suggested by Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>.
>
> Issue reported by coccinelle (coccicheck).
>
> Signed-off-by: John B. Wyatt IV <jbwyatt4@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c
> index dc3ab10eb630..05b57a2489a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c
> @@ -716,13 +716,11 @@ int vnt_radio_power_off(struct vnt_private *priv)
> * Out:
> * none
> *
> - * Return Value: true if success; otherwise false
> + * Return Value: 0

If this always returns something, why have it return anything at all?

Why not make this a patch series, doing this, and then fixing up the
callers and the function to not return anything.

thanks,

greg k-h

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2020-03-22 12:27    [W:0.071 / U:0.052 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site