A return statement is unnecessarily complicated, currently value in variable mask is bitwise-masked and the variable is being updated and then returned. Just updating the mask is all that is required as the following statement is a return. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/pata_ali.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_ali.c b/drivers/ata/pata_ali.c index ab28a6707b94..1b90cda27246 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/pata_ali.c +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_ali.c @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static unsigned long ali_20_filter(struct ata_device *adev, unsigned long mask) mask &= ~(ATA_MASK_MWDMA | ATA_MASK_UDMA); ata_id_c_string(adev->id, model_num, ATA_ID_PROD, sizeof(model_num)); if (strstr(model_num, "WDC")) - return mask &= ~ATA_MASK_UDMA; + mask &= ~ATA_MASK_UDMA; return mask; } -- 2.33.1
