On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:18:26AM -0200, Eduardo Barretto wrote:
> Checkpatch was complaining about the else statement because the if statement 
> had a return '1' call. Taking a look at the function which this else 
> statement belongs, you can see that it has an switch case statement.
> The main idea of the function is to return '1' if you get into any of the 
> cases (including the default case where the "problematic" if/else statement 
> is declared).
> If any of the cases is not sufficient the function should return '0', so the 
> else statement that checkpath was complaining could be removed, and what was 
> done inside this else statement can be done outside the switch case statement 
> and then we return '0'.
> This way we have a cleaner code and no checkpatch error complaints.

Verbose is good, but please wrap your lines at 72 columns.  And this
might have been a bit too verbose :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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