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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@gmail.com>
Cc: johan@kernel.org, elder@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: greybus: remove return in an empty void function
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:28:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220412072843.GD3293@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eaf51ac31d264179298cb24c91f05a14e3651bda.1649712572.git.jhpark1013@gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 09:50:22PM -0400, Jaehee Park wrote:
> Issue found by checkpatch:
> WARNING: void function return statements are not generally useful
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c
> index 0f50d1e51e2c..3e3a16568def 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c
> @@ -1032,7 +1032,6 @@ static int gbcodec_probe(struct snd_soc_component *comp)
>  static void gbcodec_remove(struct snd_soc_component *comp)
>  {
>  	/* Empty function for now */
> -	return;
>  }

This function is called from snd_soc_component_remove().  You can safely
remove the whole function.  We do not like empty stub functions.

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-12  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-12  1:50 [PATCH 0/2] staging: greybus: fix warnings reported by checkpatch Jaehee Park
2022-04-12  1:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: greybus: correct typo in comment 'Atleast' to 'At least' Jaehee Park
2022-04-12  1:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: greybus: remove return in an empty void function Jaehee Park
2022-04-12  7:04   ` Julia Lawall
2022-04-12 20:02     ` Jaehee Park
2022-04-12  7:28   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-04-12 20:03     ` Jaehee Park
2022-04-12  1:55 ` [PATCH 0/2] staging: greybus: fix warnings reported by checkpatch Alex Elder

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