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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1405200835490.2723@hadrien>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2014 08:36:24 +0800 (SGT)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/13] libertas: make return of 0 explicit



On Mon, 19 May 2014, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> Hello.
>
> On 19-05-2014 8:31, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> > From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
>
> > Delete unnecessary local variable whose value is always 0 and that hides
> > the fact that the result is always 0.
>
> > A simplified version of the semantic patch that fixes this problem is as
> > follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> > // <smpl>
> > @r exists@
> > local idexpression ret;
> > expression e;
> > position p;
> > @@
> >
> > -ret = 0;
> > ... when != ret = e
> > return
> > - ret
> > + 0
> >    ;
> > // </smpl>
>
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
>
> > ---
> > Alternatively, was an error code intended in the bad length case, as is
> > done in process_brxed_802_11_packet?
>
> >   drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c |    7 ++-----
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c
> > b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c
> > index c7366b0..807c5b8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c
> [...]
> > @@ -154,10 +152,9 @@ int lbs_process_rxed_packet(struct lbs_private *priv,
> > struct sk_buff *skb)
> >   	else
> >   		netif_rx_ni(skb);
> >
> > -	ret = 0;
> >   done:
> > -	lbs_deb_leave_args(LBS_DEB_RX, "ret %d", ret);
> > -	return ret;
> > +	lbs_deb_leave_args(LBS_DEB_RX, "ret %d", 0);
>
>    Why not just "ret 0"?

Oops, I won't make any change here, because Dan Williams has proposed
another patch that makes the ret variable useful.

julia
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