Re: [PATCH] Staging: vt6656: Checkpatch fix: else after break or return

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Jan 11 2015 - 11:42:38 EST


On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 03:19 +1100, Emrys Bayliss wrote:
> This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl error:
> rxtx.c:588: WARNING: else is not generally useful after a break or return
>
> Signed-off-by: Emrys Bayliss <emrys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c
> index ea5140a..cc34704 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c
> @@ -553,8 +553,6 @@ static u16 vnt_fill_cts_head(struct vnt_usb_send_context *tx_context,
> cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FTYPE_CTL | IEEE80211_STYPE_CTS);
>
> memcpy(buf->data.ra, priv->current_net_addr, ETH_ALEN);
> -
> - return vnt_rxtx_datahead_g_fb(tx_context, &buf->data_head);
> } else {
> struct vnt_cts *buf = &head->cts_g;
> /* Get SignalField,ServiceField,Length */
> @@ -571,11 +569,9 @@ static u16 vnt_fill_cts_head(struct vnt_usb_send_context *tx_context,
> cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FTYPE_CTL | IEEE80211_STYPE_CTS);
>
> memcpy(buf->data.ra, priv->current_net_addr, ETH_ALEN);
> -
> - return vnt_rxtx_datahead_g(tx_context, &buf->data_head);
> }
>
> - return 0;
> + return vnt_rxtx_datahead_g_fb(tx_context, &buf->data_head);
> }
>
> static u16 vnt_rxtx_rts(struct vnt_usb_send_context *tx_context,

This is not the same code.
Does this even compile?

For the second block, you've changed
return <foo>_g(...) to <foo>_g_fb(...).



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