Re: [PATCH] staging: silicom: fix 'return is not a function, parentheses are not required' in bpctl_mod.c

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 01:50 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:23:53PM +0100, Will Tange wrote:
> > Fixes warnings regarding redundant parantheses thrown by the checkpatch tool in bpctl_mod.c
[]
> 	if (ret < 0)
> 		return BP_NOT_CAP;
> 	if (ret == 0)
> 		return 1;
> 	return 0;
> 
> More lines, but simpler to understand than the original.
> 
> Think of checkpatch.pl as a pointer to bad code and not that we just
> have to silence checkpatch and move on.

So true.

If 0 is the expected ret value and 1 is the
expected function return for not-errored use,
I suggest changing the last bit to:

	if (ret < 0)
		return BP_NOT_CAP;
	else if (ret > 0)
		return 0;

	return 1;

so that the error conditions are done first
and the normal return is at the bottom of
the function.