[2.6 patch] drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c: remove dead code

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:52:20PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:31:50PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:02:37AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:22:39AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > The Coverity checker found this obviously dead code.
> > > 
> > > I think the checker is wrong, this does not look correct to me.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > Due to the while(length), length can't be 0 at the switch.
> 
> Doh, ok, nevermind.  Care to resend this?

It's below.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

cu
Adrian


<--  snip  -->


The Coverity checker found this dead code.


Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>

---

 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c.old	2005-11-20 22:56:41.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c	2005-11-20 22:58:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -861,13 +861,10 @@
 
 	while (length) {
 
 	    switch (length) {
 
-		case 0:
-			return ret;
-
 		case 1:
 			if (userbuffer) {
 				if (get_user(swap8, (u8 __user *)userbuffer))
 					return -EFAULT;
 			} else
@@ -1219,13 +1216,10 @@
 
 	while (length) {
 
 	    switch (length) {
 
-		case 0:
-			return ret;
-
 		case 1:
 
 			ret |= sisusb_read_memio_byte(sisusb, SISUSB_TYPE_MEM,
 								addr, &buf[0]);
 			if (!ret) {

-
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