On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 08:34:42PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote: > ./drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:972:10-12: WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else) > ./drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:983:9-11: WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else) > ./drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:2052:11-13: WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else) > > Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> You can not just provide the output of a tool as a changelog text, sorry. Please explain what those lines mean, and why you are making the change that you are. > --- > drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c | 26 -------------------------- > 1 file changed, 26 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c b/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c > index 76c718a..257efac 100644 > --- a/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c > +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c > @@ -915,7 +915,6 @@ static int ftdi_elan_respond_engine(struct usb_ftdi *ftdi) > int bytes_read = 0; > int retry_on_empty = 1; > int retry_on_timeout = 3; > - int empty_packets = 0; > read:{ > int packet_bytes = 0; > int retval = usb_bulk_msg(ftdi->udev, > @@ -960,31 +959,6 @@ read:{ > dev_err(&ftdi->udev->dev, "error = %d with packet_bytes = %d with total %d bytes%s\n", > retval, packet_bytes, bytes_read, diag); > return retval; > - } else if (packet_bytes == 2) { > - unsigned char s0 = ftdi->bulk_in_buffer[0]; > - unsigned char s1 = ftdi->bulk_in_buffer[1]; > - empty_packets += 1; > - if (s0 == 0x31 && s1 == 0x60) { > - if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) { > - goto more; > - } else > - return 0; > - } else if (s0 == 0x31 && s1 == 0x00) { > - if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) { > - goto more; > - } else > - return 0; > - } else { > - if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) { > - goto more; > - } else > - return 0; > - } > - } else if (packet_bytes == 1) { > - if (retry_on_empty-- > 0) { > - goto more; > - } else > - return 0; Are you _sure_ that these lines are not needed and that the compiler is not really seeing them? As it doesn't look that way to me, what am I missing? thanks, greg k-h