linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/display: remove dead code in drm_edp_backlight_probe

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Message-ID: <aKVaiRpULAGceEMD@hobbes>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:18:01 -1000
From: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@...il.com>
To: Nai-Chen Cheng <bleach1827@...il.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/display: remove dead code in
 drm_edp_backlight_probe_state

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:30:31AM +0800, Nai-Chen Cheng wrote:
> In the error path where ret < 0, the ternary operator "ret < 0 ? ret :
> -EIO" will always evaluate to ret since ret is guaranteed to be
> negative. Simplify by directly returning ret.
> 
> Found by Coverity(CID 1649044).

Acked-by: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@...il.com>

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Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas

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