Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: timed_gpio.c: remove else statement after return

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 29 2014 - 01:02:43 EST


On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 20:11 -0300, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo wrote:
> This patch makes checkpatch.pl script happy by fixing the following
> warning:
>
> WARNING: else is not generally useful after a break or return
>
> Signed-off-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c b/drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c
> index 180c209..05cb578 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c
> @@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ static int gpio_get_time(struct timed_output_dev *dev)
> struct timeval t = ktime_to_timeval(r);
>
> return t.tv_sec * 1000 + t.tv_usec / 1000;
> - } else
> - return 0;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> }

It may be better to reverse the logic here.
Something like:

drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c b/drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c
index 180c209..8fa4758 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/timed_gpio.c
@@ -45,16 +45,17 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart gpio_timer_func(struct hrtimer *timer)

static int gpio_get_time(struct timed_output_dev *dev)
{
- struct timed_gpio_data *data =
- container_of(dev, struct timed_gpio_data, dev);
+ struct timed_gpio_data *data;
+ struct timeval t;

- if (hrtimer_active(&data->timer)) {
- ktime_t r = hrtimer_get_remaining(&data->timer);
- struct timeval t = ktime_to_timeval(r);
+ data = container_of(dev, struct timed_gpio_data, dev);

- return t.tv_sec * 1000 + t.tv_usec / 1000;
- } else
+ if (!hrtimer_active(&data->timer))
return 0;
+
+ t = ktime_to_timeval(hrtimer_get_remaining(&data->timer));
+
+ return t.tv_sec * 1000 + t.tv_usec / 1000;
}

static void gpio_enable(struct timed_output_dev *dev, int value)



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