Re: [PATCH] rtl8712:Fix checkpatch warning

Sudip Mukherjee
2015-06-30T04:29:44Z

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 01:27:47AM +0530, Ravi Teja Darbha wrote:
>
> 1. Fix line over 80 characters warning.
> 2. The checkpatch warning at line 499 seems to be false positive.
> WARNING: else is not generally useful after a break or return
> #499: FILE: rtl8712_recv.c:499:
> + return false;
> + else
>
> while(condition1) {
> if(condition2)
> foo();
> else if(condition3)
> return false;
> else
> break;
> }
>
> The else condition here cannot be eliminated
You can try something like this to eliminate the else:

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
index fcb8c61..165161b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
@@ -492,12 +492,13 @@ static int enqueue_reorder_recvframe(struct recv_reorder_ctrl *preorder_ctrl,
while (end_of_queue_search(phead, plist) == false) {
pnextrframe = LIST_CONTAINOR(plist, union recv_frame, u);
pnextattrib = &pnextrframe->u.hdr.attrib;
- if (SN_LESS(pnextattrib->seq_num, pattrib->seq_num))
+ if (SN_LESS(pnextattrib->seq_num, pattrib->seq_num)) {
plist = plist->next;
+ continue;
+ }
else if (SN_EQUAL(pnextattrib->seq_num, pattrib->seq_num))
return false;
- else
- break;
+ break;
}
list_del_init(&(prframe->u.hdr.list));
list_add_tail(&(prframe->u.hdr.list), plist);

regards
sudip