linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Staging: vt6656: Checkpatch fix: else after break or return

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:18:40 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Emrys Bayliss <emrys@...adise.net.nz>, forest@...ttletooquiet.net,
	tvboxspy@...il.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Staging: vt6656: Checkpatch fix: else after break or
 return

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:54:27AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:58:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:53:12AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > 
> > > any reason why this return was removed ?
> > 
> > Because it's not needed.
> 
> yes, it is not needed. but the way Emrys Bayliss has changed the code, then we will get a compiler warning about no return statement.
i should have mentioned in my last mail that compiler will give waring if we compile with W=3 

sudip

> the code becomes :
> 
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