Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Directly return 0 instead of using local ret variable

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 05:23:06PM +0800, Haowen Bai wrote:
> fixes coccinelle warning:
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c:152:5-9: Unneeded variable: "pull". Return "0" on line 302
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@meizu.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c
> index 293541d..6ab89f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c
> @@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ static void fill_txdesc_phy(struct pkt_attrib *pattrib, __le32 *pdw)
>  
>  static s32 update_txdesc(struct xmit_frame *pxmitframe, u8 *pmem, s32 sz, u8 bagg_pkt)
>  {
> -	int	pull = 0;
>  	uint	qsel;
>  	u8 data_rate, pwr_status, offset;
>  	struct adapter		*adapt = pxmitframe->padapter;
> @@ -299,7 +298,8 @@ static s32 update_txdesc(struct xmit_frame *pxmitframe, u8 *pmem, s32 sz, u8 bag
>  	ODM_SetTxAntByTxInfo_88E(&haldata->odmpriv, pmem, pattrib->mac_id);
>  
>  	rtl8188eu_cal_txdesc_chksum(ptxdesc);
> -	return pull;
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }

No, as this function can only return 0, please make it a void function
and fix up the callers to simplify this.

thanks,

greg k-h