From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The check for ret being zero is redundant as a few statements earlier we break out of the while loop if ret is non-zero. Thus we can remove the zero check and also the dead-code non-zero case too. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1411632 ("Logically Dead Code") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c index 1994c74..a3ad042 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c @@ -2508,8 +2508,7 @@ int aac_command_thread(void *data) && (now.tv_usec > (1000000 / HZ))) difference = (((1000000 - now.tv_usec) * HZ) + 500000) / 1000000; - else if (ret == 0) { - + else { if (now.tv_usec > 500000) ++now.tv_sec; @@ -2520,9 +2519,6 @@ int aac_command_thread(void *data) ret = aac_send_hosttime(dev, &now); difference = (long)(unsigned)update_interval*HZ; - } else { - /* retry shortly */ - difference = 10 * HZ; } next_jiffies = jiffies + difference; if (time_before(next_check_jiffies,next_jiffies)) -- 2.10.2