We just checked "id.card < 0" on the lines before so we know it's not true here. We can delete that check. Also checkpatch.pl complains about some extra curly braces so we may as well fix that while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index 6d4fbc439246..8b9e7943a83b 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -1430,18 +1430,13 @@ static int snd_timer_user_next_device(struct snd_timer_id __user *_tid) if (id.card < 0) { id.card = 0; } else { - if (id.card < 0) { - id.card = 0; + if (id.device < 0) { + id.device = 0; } else { - if (id.device < 0) { - id.device = 0; - } else { - if (id.subdevice < 0) { - id.subdevice = 0; - } else { - id.subdevice++; - } - } + if (id.subdevice < 0) + id.subdevice = 0; + else + id.subdevice++; } } list_for_each(p, &snd_timer_list) { -- 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