Re: [PATCH] megaraid:Remove no longer required variable ret from the function megasas_sync_map_info

[Frans Klaver]

Can't seem to find the original, so here's a reply to the ack mail.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Sumit Saxena
<sumit.saxena@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Krause [mailto:xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 9:43 PM
> To: kashyap.desai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: sumit.saxena@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; uday.lingala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> JBottomley@xxxxxxxx; megaraidlinux.pdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] megaraid:Remove no longer required variable ret from the
> function megasas_sync_map_info

Isn't something shorter like

  [PATCH] megaraid: remove pointless variable

much more readable?


> This removes the no longer required variable ret due to this variable only
> ever being used at the end of the function megasas_sync_map_info without
> changing it's value from the orginal setting of its value to zero due to
> this just remove the variable ret and just return the value of zero
> directly here in order to indicate to the caller the call to this function
> has run successfully without any non recoverable issues.

No interpunction?


> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c
> b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c
> index 46a0f8f..b5a8c65 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c
> @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ megasas_get_map_info(struct megasas_instance
> *instance)  int  megasas_sync_map_info(struct megasas_instance *instance)
> {
> -       int ret = 0, i;
> +       int i;
>         struct megasas_cmd *cmd;
>         struct megasas_dcmd_frame *dcmd;
>         u32 size_sync_info, num_lds;
> @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ megasas_sync_map_info(struct megasas_instance
> *instance)
>
>         instance->instancet->issue_dcmd(instance, cmd);
>
> -       return ret;
> +       return 0;
>  }
>
> Acked-by: Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This ack in an outlook-style response confused the hell out of me ;).

Thanks,
Frans
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