When the console is already registered, stop crawling the registered_con_driver array and return an error immediatelly. This makes the code more obvious. And we do not need to initialize retval anymore. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 3ed1ae211acc..dc125322f48f 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -3575,7 +3575,7 @@ static int do_register_con_driver(const struct consw *csw, int first, int last) struct module *owner = csw->owner; struct con_driver *con_driver; const char *desc; - int i, retval = 0; + int i, retval; WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED(); @@ -3586,13 +3586,12 @@ static int do_register_con_driver(const struct consw *csw, int first, int last) con_driver = ®istered_con_driver[i]; /* already registered */ - if (con_driver->con == csw) + if (con_driver->con == csw) { retval = -EBUSY; + goto err; + } } - if (retval) - goto err; - desc = csw->con_startup(); if (!desc) { retval = -ENODEV; -- 2.8.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html