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

[SIMRAN SINGHAL]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:49 AM, SIMRAN SINGHAL
<singhalsimr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
I am not getting what's the problem in removing else or may be I
am wrong you just want to say that I should change the commit message.
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