Checkpatch emits WARNING: Avoid multiple line dereference. Function uses if statement blocks to guard the body of the function. If we invert these conditionals and return, then the code becomes more readable and subsequent code is indented less. The checkpatch fix then follows trivially. Invert conditionals, return from function if new conditional evaluates to true. Reduce the level of indentation in subsequent code. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c index b1213c8..d48c3ba 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c @@ -2606,16 +2606,16 @@ void hostif_sme_task(unsigned long dev) DPRINTK(3, "\n"); - if (priv->dev_state >= DEVICE_STATE_BOOT) { - if (cnt_smeqbody(priv) > 0) { - hostif_sme_execute(priv, - priv->sme_i.event_buff[priv->sme_i. - qhead]); - inc_smeqhead(priv); - if (cnt_smeqbody(priv) > 0) - tasklet_schedule(&priv->sme_task); - } - } + if (priv->dev_state < DEVICE_STATE_BOOT) + return; + + if (cnt_smeqbody(priv) <= 0) + return; + + hostif_sme_execute(priv, priv->sme_i.event_buff[priv->sme_i.qhead]); + inc_smeqhead(priv); + if (cnt_smeqbody(priv) > 0) + tasklet_schedule(&priv->sme_task); } /* send to Station Management Entity module */ -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel