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

From: "Kok, Auke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:19:20 -0700

Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 19:58 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[email-masked]>
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c
>> index 3330917..0ed02b7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c
>> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ int mlx4_MAD_IFC(struct mlx4_ib_dev *dev, int ignore_mkey, int ignore_bkey,
>>  			   in_modifier, op_modifier,
>>  			   MLX4_CMD_MAD_IFC, MLX4_CMD_TIME_CLASS_C);
>>  
>> -	if (!err);
>> +	if (!err)
> 
> 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 !!!

Cheers,

Auke