Re: [PATCH][V2] ethernet: aquantia: remove redundant checks on error status

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From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 19:29:40 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The error status err is initialized as zero and then being checked
> several times to see if it is less than zero even when it has not
> been updated.  It may seem that the err should be assigned to the
> return code of the call to the various *offload_en_set calls and
> then we check for failure, however, these functions are void and
> never actually return any status.  
> 
> Since these error checks are redundant we can remove these
> as well as err and the error exit label err_exit.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1398313 and CID#1398306 ("Logically
> dead code")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.
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