Re: checkpatch.pl warning for "return" with value

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 14:52 -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> Also checking and returning from a function, doesn't
> always have to be binary. It could be,
> 
> 	if (A) {
> 		...;
> 		return X;
> 	} else if (B) {
> 		...;
> 		return Y;
> 	} else {
> 		...;
> 		return Z;
> 	}
> }
> 
> And interestingly, checkpatch.pl doesn't complain for
> the triplet above. But if I remove condition B, above,
> it does complain.

My recollection is false positives existed so the
else if case was not wanted.