Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fixes unnecessary return warning

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 10:17 +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com> writes:
> > > This patch fixes checkpatch.pl warning in rtw_mlme_ext.c file.
> > > WARNING: void function return statements are not generally useful
[]
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
[]
> > > @@ -2657,7 +2657,6 @@ static void issue_probersp(struct rtw_adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da)
> > > 
> > >       dump_mgntframe23a(padapter, pmgntframe);
> > > 
> > > -     return;
> > >  }
> > 
> > If you insist on pushing this rather unncessary change, please do it
> > properly, and remove the blank line before the return statement as well.
> 
> As Jes said, you need to remove the blank lines before the returns
> too. checkpatch should have picked this up, you did run the patch
> through checkpatch before you sent it, right?

checkpatch doesn't pick this up.

If you'd like to make it do so, you're welcome to try
but it's likely a bit more complicated than it appears.