Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: drop return value from receive_disconnect

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 27 2022 - 05:07:03 EST


On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 08:07:34PM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> The receive_disconnect function always returns _SUCCESS. None of the
> callers checks the return value. We can remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 5 ++---
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_mlme_ext.h | 3 +--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> index cce0575e93b7..fc6e06d7b5ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> @@ -6191,14 +6191,14 @@ void start_clnt_assoc(struct adapter *padapter)
> set_link_timer(pmlmeext, REASSOC_TO);
> }
>
> -unsigned int receive_disconnect(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *MacAddr, unsigned short reason)
> +void receive_disconnect(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *MacAddr, unsigned short reason)
> {
> struct mlme_ext_priv *pmlmeext = &padapter->mlmeextpriv;
> struct mlme_ext_info *pmlmeinfo = &pmlmeext->mlmext_info;
>
> /* check A3 */
> if (!(!memcmp(MacAddr, get_my_bssid(&pmlmeinfo->network), ETH_ALEN)))
> - return _SUCCESS;
> + return;

Shouldn't this check return an error instead of success? If not, what
exactly is this checking this for?

thanks,

greg k-h