Re: [PATCH] Removes unnecessary if statement from /drivers/block/z2ram.c

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:27:27PM +0000, Telemaque Ndizihiwe wrote:
> 
> This Patch removes unnecessary if statement from a function that has no 
> implementation (in kernel 2.6.x and 2.4.x); the function returns 0 with 
> or without the if statement:
> 
> 	static int z2_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
> 	{
> 		if(current_device==-1)
> 			return 0;
> 
> 		return 0;
> 	}
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Telemaque Ndizihiwe <telendiz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> --- linux-2.6.10/drivers/block/z2ram.c.orig	2005-02-23 
> 18:02:51.011967584 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/block/z2ram.c	2005-02-23 18:05:31.617551824 +0000
> @@ -304,9 +304,6 @@ err_out:
>  static int
>  z2_release( struct inode *inode, struct file *filp )
>  {
> -    if ( current_device == -1 )
> -	return 0; 
> -
>      /*
>       * FIXME: unmap memory
>       */

For what gain?

The real issue is that this function isn't really implemented.

cu
Adrian

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