Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove unnecessary else after return

From	SIMRAN SINGHAL <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove unnecessary else after return
Date	2017-02-27 21:50 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 23:44 +0530, simran singhal wrote:
>> This patch fixes the checkpatch warning that else is not generally
>> useful after a break or return.
>
>> This was done using Coccinelle:
>> @@
>> expression e2;
>> statement s1;
>> @@
>> if(e2) { ... return ...; }
>> -else
>>          s1
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_endian.c b/drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_endian.c
> []
>> @@ -26,30 +26,26 @@ __dev16 gdm_cpu_to_dev16(struct gdm_endian *ed, u16 x)
>>  {
>>       if (ed->dev_ed == ENDIANNESS_LITTLE)
>>               return (__force __dev16)cpu_to_le16(x);
>> -     else
>> -             return (__force __dev16)cpu_to_be16(x);
>> +     return (__force __dev16)cpu_to_be16(x);
>
> again, not a checkpatch message for any of the
> suggested modified hunks.
>
So, I have to change commit message.

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[PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove unnecessary else after return simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 19:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove unnecessary else after  return Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-02-27 21:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove unnecessary else after return SIMRAN SINGHAL <singhalsimran0@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 21:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove unnecessary else after  return Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-02-28 20:50 +0100
        Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove  unnecessary else after return Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> - 2017-02-28 21:10 +0100
      Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove  unnecessary else after return Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> - 2017-02-28 20:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove unnecessary else after return SIMRAN SINGHAL <singhalsimran0@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 21:20 +0100

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