From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> The assignment of ret to -EIO appears to only make sense if the branch that it is aligned with is executed, so move it into that branch. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r disable braces4@ position p1,p2; statement S1,S2; @@ ( if (...) { ... } | if (...) S1@p1 S2@p2 ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; @@ if (p1[0].column == p2[0].column): cocci.print_main("branch",p1) cocci.print_secs("after",p2) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- This patch changes the semantics and might not be what is intended. drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c index e058c2b..ca05aef 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c @@ -938,10 +938,11 @@ static int set_brightness(int value) /* SPLV laptop */ if (hotk->methods->brightness_set) { if (!write_acpi_int(hotk->handle, hotk->methods->brightness_set, - value, NULL)) + value, NULL)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "Asus ACPI: Error changing brightness\n"); ret = -EIO; + } goto out; } @@ -953,10 +954,11 @@ static int set_brightness(int value) hotk->methods->brightness_down, NULL, NULL); (value > 0) ? value-- : value++; - if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "Asus ACPI: Error changing brightness\n"); ret = -EIO; + } } out: return ret; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html