From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> Delete successive tests to the same location. There was a previous test on ret and it has not been updated since then. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @s exists@ local idexpression y; expression x,e; @@ *if ( \(x == NULL\|IS_ERR(x)\|y != 0\) ) { ... when forall return ...; } ... when != \(y = e\|y += e\|y -= e\|y |= e\|y &= e\|y++\|y--\|&y\) when != \(XT_GETPAGE(...,y)\|WMI_CMD_BUF(...)\) *if ( \(x == NULL\|IS_ERR(x)\|y != 0\) ) { ... when forall return ...; } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- Perhaps it was intended to test somthing, but I am not sure what. drivers/staging/omap-thermal/omap-bandgap.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/omap-thermal/omap-bandgap.c b/drivers/staging/omap-thermal/omap-bandgap.c index 8346e34..89f7180 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/omap-thermal/omap-bandgap.c +++ b/drivers/staging/omap-thermal/omap-bandgap.c @@ -568,8 +568,6 @@ int omap_bandgap_read_update_interval(struct omap_bandgap *bg_ptr, int id, tsr = bg_ptr->conf->sensors[id].registers; time = omap_bandgap_readl(bg_ptr, tsr->bgap_counter); - if (ret) - return ret; time = (time & tsr->counter_mask) >> __ffs(tsr->counter_mask); time = time * 1000 / bg_ptr->clk_rate; -- 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