Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: gdm724x: Remove unnecessary else after return

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 23:44 +0530, simran singhal wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch warning that else is not generally
> useful after a break or return.

> This was done using Coccinelle:
> @@
> expression e2;
> statement s1;
> @@
> if(e2) { ... return ...; }
> -else
>          s1
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_endian.c b/drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_endian.c
[]
> @@ -26,30 +26,26 @@ __dev16 gdm_cpu_to_dev16(struct gdm_endian *ed, u16 x)
>  {
>  	if (ed->dev_ed == ENDIANNESS_LITTLE)
>  		return (__force __dev16)cpu_to_le16(x);
> -	else
> -		return (__force __dev16)cpu_to_be16(x);
> +	return (__force __dev16)cpu_to_be16(x);

again, not a checkpatch message for any of the
suggested modified hunks.