Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: lustre: Remove unnecessary else after return

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On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 01:51 +0530, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> > 
> > checkpatch doesn't actually warn for this style
> > 
> >         if (foo)
> >                 return bar;
> >         else
> >                 return baz;
> > 
> 
> ok, My bad
> so, I have to change commit message as checkpatch doesn't warn for this style.

Perhaps better would be to leave them unchanged instead.

> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
[]
> > > @@ -1806,8 +1806,7 @@ ksocknal_close_matching_conns(struct lnet_process_id id, __u32 ipaddr)
> > > 
> > >       if (!count)
> > >               return -ENOENT;
> > > -     else
> > > -             return 0;
> > > +     return 0;

There might be a case for this one.
error returns are generally in the form

{
	[...]

	err = func(...);
	if (err < 0)
		return err;

	return 0;
}
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