Re: drivers/infiniband/mlx/mad.c misplaced ;

["Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>]

Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 19:19 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
>> Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 19:58 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>>> There's more than a few of these (not inspected).
>>> $ egrep -r --include=*.c "\bif[[:space:]]*\([^\)]*\)[[:space:]]*\;" * 
>>> arch/sh/boards/se/7343/io.c:    if (0) ;
>>> drivers/atm/iphase.c:     if (!desc1) ;
>>> drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c:       if (!err);
>>> drivers/isdn/capi/capiutil.c:   else if (c <= 0x0f);
>>> drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c:  else if (ti->shared_ram_paging == 0xf);  /* No paging in adapter */
>>> drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c:           if (status == ZFCP_ERP_SUCCEEDED) ;     /* no further action */
>>> fs/hostfs/hostfs_user.c:        if(attrs->ia_valid & HOSTFS_ATTR_CTIME) ;
>>> net/netfilter/xt_u32.c:         if (skb->len < 4 || pos > skb->len - 4);
>>> sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_synth.c:                                if (eax == 0) ;
>> sounds like an excellent candidate check for checkpatch.pl !!!
> 
> I think it's poor style and all of these should go away.
> 
> the netfilter one appears to be a real error too.

I was more thinking of making sure that none of these slip back in...

Auke