The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/ptr_ret.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c @@ -1093,9 +1093,7 @@ int sas_init_queue(struct sas_ha_struct core->queue_thread = kthread_run(sas_queue_thread, sas_ha, "sas_queue_%d", core->shost->host_no); - if (IS_ERR(core->queue_thread)) - return PTR_ERR(core->queue_thread); - return 0; + return PTR_RET(core->queue_thread); } void sas_shutdown_queue(struct sas_ha_struct *sas_ha) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html