Re: [PATCH 00/36] treewide: remove conditional returns with no effect

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:48:22 -0700
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:45:02 +0900 Sang-Heon Jeon wrote:
> Patch 1 adds a Coccinelle script that matches the pattern, including
> negation and constant-comparison variants. Where a local variable is
> assigned right before the check, the assignment and the two returns
> turn into a single return of the assigned expression.

Huh, I thought we already had such script. Various script children have
been sending such "cleanups" in the past.

> Patches 2-36 are generated by the script, with hand fixes to restore
> unexpectedly removed comments and to fix the formatting checkpatch.pl
> complained about.

Please post patches 4,7,8,9 as a separate series. Since you only CCed
netdev on subset of the series patchwork thinks there are patches
missing and doesn't kick off any CI.