From: Jesper Juhl Tiny patch that cuts down the nr of assignments to 'ret'. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/fs/compat.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/compat.c~fs_compat-tiny-cleanup-retvalpatch fs/compat.c --- 25/fs/compat.c~fs_compat-tiny-cleanup-retvalpatch 2005-03-10 19:10:11.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/fs/compat.c 2005-03-10 19:10:11.000000000 -0800 @@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ compat_sys_select(int n, compat_ulong_t fd_set_bits fds; char *bits; long timeout; - int ret, size, max_fdset; + int size, max_fdset, ret = -EINVAL; timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT; if (tvp) { @@ -1637,7 +1637,6 @@ compat_sys_select(int n, compat_ulong_t goto out_nofds; } - ret = -EINVAL; if (sec < 0 || usec < 0) goto out_nofds; @@ -1647,7 +1646,6 @@ compat_sys_select(int n, compat_ulong_t } } - ret = -EINVAL; if (n < 0) goto out_nofds; _