The subject of this patch is "silence a static checker warning." I'm just not going to send patches to deliberately introduce static checker warnings. :P Forget about it. This is like those patches that Markus Elfring sent removing if conditions. It seems like it should make the code shorter an more simple to remove code but it actually makes the code more subtle and difficult to understand. regards, dan carpenter -- 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