[PATCH] rtl8712:Fix checkpatch warning

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Jun 29 20:09:27 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 01:27:47AM +0530, Ravi Teja Darbha wrote:
> 
> 1. Fix line over 80 characters warning.

Great, but:

> 2. The checkpatch warning at line 499 seems to be false positive.
> WARNING: else is not generally useful after a break or return
> #499: FILE: rtl8712_recv.c:499:
> +            return false;
> +        else
> 
> while(condition1) {
>     if(condition2)
>         foo();
>     else if(condition3)
>         return false;
>     else
>         break;
> }
> 
> The else condition here cannot be eliminated

Why does that belong here in this changelog entry?  Why would you want
this text to show up in the kernel log?

Please fix up.

Also:

> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
> @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ int r8712_init_recv_priv(struct recv_priv *precvpriv, struct _adapter *padapter)
>  
>      /*init recv_buf*/
>      _init_queue(&precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue);
> -    precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf = kzalloc(NR_RECVBUFF * sizeof(struct recv_buf) + 4,
> -                         GFP_ATOMIC);
> +    precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf =
> +        kzalloc(NR_RECVBUFF * sizeof(struct recv_buf) + 4, GFP_ATOMIC);
>      if (precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf == NULL)
>          return _FAIL;
>      precvpriv->precv_buf = precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf + 4 -
> -- 
> 1.9.1

Your patches are corrupted and can not be applied.  Please fix your
email client.

greg k-h


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