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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 09:43:25 +0200
From:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
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



Am 19.05.2014 06:31, schrieb Julia Lawall:
> 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
> @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ static int process_rxed_802_11_packet(struct lbs_private *priv,
>   */
>  int lbs_process_rxed_packet(struct lbs_private *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  {
> -	int ret = 0;
>  	struct net_device *dev = priv->dev;
>  	struct rxpackethdr *p_rx_pkt;
>  	struct rxpd *p_rx_pd;
> @@ -86,7 +85,6 @@ int lbs_process_rxed_packet(struct lbs_private *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	if (skb->len < (ETH_HLEN + 8 + sizeof(struct rxpd))) {
>  		lbs_deb_rx("rx err: frame received with bad length\n");
>  		dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
> -		ret = 0;
>  		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
>  		goto done;
>  	}
> @@ -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);
> +	return 0;
>  }

i guess lbs_deb_leave_args() is obsolet now.

re,
 wh


>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lbs_process_rxed_packet);
>  
> 
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