From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The two different assignments for pkt_len are actually the same and so the if statement is redundant and can be removed. Masking a u8 return value from inb() with 0xFF is also redundant and can also be emoved. Remove the redundant code. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1475639 ("Identical code for different branches") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c b/drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c index bb49f6e40a19..64c74002fe8b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c +++ b/drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c @@ -777,10 +777,7 @@ static void cops_rx(struct net_device *dev) } /* Get response length. */ - if(lp->board==DAYNA) - pkt_len = inb(ioaddr) & 0xFF; - else - pkt_len = inb(ioaddr) & 0x00FF; + pkt_len = inb(ioaddr); pkt_len |= (inb(ioaddr) << 8); /* Input IO code. */ rsp_type=inb(ioaddr); -- 2.19.1