[PATCH] Staging: wlan-ng: hfa384x_usb: fixed an 'else' statement coding style issue

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Mon Dec 15 21:28:31 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 18:53 -0200, Eduardo Barretto wrote:
> Thank you for the quick feedback. 
> It was my first patch to the kernel and I wanted to be sure it would get right to the community.
> I'll be making a version two with the consideration you brought me.

the code today is:

{
	switch (prdcode) {
	case [...]
		return 1;
	default:
		if (prdcode < 0x1000) {
			printk(msg1);
			return 1;
		else
			printk(msg2);
			return 0;
	}
	return 0;	/* avoid compiler noise */
}

I think this code does not needs changing.
I think more modern compilers don't even warn
when the last return 0; isn't there.

If it were to be changed, I'd probably write it like:

{
	switch (prdcode) {
	case [...]
		return 1;
	default:
		if (prdcode < 0x1000) {
			printk(msg1);
			return 1;
		}
		break;
	}

	printk(msg2);
	return 0;
}

but I wouldn't bother.



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