Re: [PATCH 5/8] staging: et131x: Remove useless return variables

From: Mark Einon
Date: Tue May 20 2014 - 07:24:25 EST


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:33:45PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> This patch remove variables that are initialized with a constant,
> are never updated, and are only used as parameter of return.
> Return the constant instead of using a variable.
>
> Verified by compilation only.
>
> The coccinelle script that find and fixes this issue is:
> // <smpl>
> @@
> type T;
> constant C;
> identifier ret;
> @@
> - T ret = C;
> ... when != ret
> - return ret;
> + return C;
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mark Einon <mark.einon@xxxxxxxxx>

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