Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] staging: greybus: remove unneeded return

From: Fabio M. De Francesco
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 16:41:30 EST


On martedì 12 aprile 2022 21:59:15 CEST Jaehee Park wrote:
> An empty function with void return type does not need an explicit
> return. Issue found by checkpatch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c b/drivers/staging/
greybus/audio_codec.c
> index 0f50d1e51e2c..3e3a16568def 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c
> @@ -1032,7 +1032,6 @@ static int gbcodec_probe(struct snd_soc_component
*comp)
> static void gbcodec_remove(struct snd_soc_component *comp)
> {
> /* Empty function for now */
> - return;
> }
>
> static int gbcodec_write(struct snd_soc_component *comp, unsigned int
reg,
> --
> 2.25.1
>
Hi Jaehee,

If I recall it correctly, Dan Carpenter suggested to remove this empty
function.

When developers remove lines of code from a function which becomes empty
after the removals, they also remove the resulting empty function and
delete all the calls (if there are any left) at the same time.

Thanks,

Fabio M. De Francesco